[Techtalk] lower to upper case

[Benjamin A'Lee]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:28:48AM +1000, Miriam English wrote:
> for file in *
> do
> 	mv $file `echo $file | tr '[a-z]' 'A-Z'`
> done
> 
> In my text editor I'd simply replace each filename with \U& but that 
> isn't possible directly in bash.
> 
> Is there an even simpler way?

Take a look at moreutils (http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/moreutils, or available
as a debian package). It includes a script 'vidir' which lets you edit a
directory in your text editor, so you can do anything that you can do with vi.

Possibly overkill for the simpler situatios, but great for more complicated
ones.

	Ben