<div>2006/11/24, Alex Janssen <<a href="mailto:alex@ourwoods.org">alex@ourwoods.org</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Alex Janssen said the following on 11/24/2006 12:48 AM: <blockquote cite="http://mid456687C9.1040802@ourwoods.org" type="cite"> <tt> # rename files to Title Case FLIST=`ls` for FNAME in $FLIST do NEWNAME=`echo $FNAME | awk '{print toupper(substr($1,1,1)) tolower(substr($1,2))}'` echo "mv $FNAME $NEWNAME" done </tt></blockquote> Please note that the above script does not work for filenames with spaces in them. Alex <pre cols="72">-- <a href="http://Ourwoods.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Ourwoods.org</a> Charlottesville, Virginia </pre> </div> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a></blockquote><div> mhm thx for this script! But i get a a wrong output: i have a structur looks like this: pc pc__8_3 when i run your script in this director i only get this: mv pc P mv pc__8_3 P Ralph </div> </div>