Renaming Files on Hoary

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for i in *.JPG; do mv ${i} `basename '.JPG' "${i}.jpg"`;done

 or something like that...

On 15/06/05, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:19:10PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> > I was always amused to compare the verbosity of the above solution to
> > how it's done on OpenVMS, which is often accused of being verbose. The
> > equivalent would be:
> >       rename [...]*.xxx .yyy
> 
> Same with MS-DOS: you'd do rename *.JPG *.jpg. I'm a little
> unsure how you'd get the same feature in the various Unices,
> because the shell handles globbing. So before 'rename' had a
> chance to get at the list of files, 'rename *.JPG *.jpg'
> would have turned into
> 
> rename a.JPG b.JPG c.JPG *.jpg
> 
> And this would be no good. So at the very least you'd have
> to do
> 
> rename '*.JPG' '*.jpg'
> 
> to avoid shell interpretation. But then you're stuck, I
> think; you need your version of 'rename' to be able to parse
> '*.JPG' and figure out what to do with '*.jpg'.
> 
> Which is why the Perl command
> 
> rename 's/JPG/jpg/g' *.JPG
> 
> is pretty nice. It's extremely powerful, and not that
> verbose.
> 
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