Re: [OT] Changing the case of filenames

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Friday 29 April 2005 09:39 am, David Niemi wrote:
>
> > I am running a fortran program which requires all input file names to be
> > uppercase.  As things were originally done in Windo$e all the filenames
> > are mixed case (with numbers).
> >
> > Searching around I came across the "tr" command, but my difficulty comes
> > in trying to use this from the command line (or even in a bash script).
> >
> >    mv * | tr [a-z] [A-Z]
> >
> > Does not work as mv requires a directory for the objective with multiple
> > files.  All of the scripts that I have seen are mainly for changing the
> > case of text in a text file so wouldn't work for me.
> >
> > So, how would I do this?
>
>
> find . -type f -exec tr [a-z] [A-Z]  {} \;
> should work

No, it shouldn't. The "tr" process would have nothing to do since no 
input was provided to it.

Paul.