At 10:54 AM 14/06/2004, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: >Hi all, >I've got a directory structure which contains some uppercase characters in >the file names. I would like to lowercase every character in the name. >Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to do this? I could write a >little program to walk through the directory structure and take care of >it, but I'd rather not go to the trouble if there is already something out >there that can do it. I had a few bash scripts written for this purpose, but have since either lost them or deleted them. I guess you could try something like the following, this is for directories only. # for dir in `find ./ -type d`; do mv "$dir" `echo "$dir" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done hth Luke