[Novalug] how to change file names for CAPITALS to lower case

[Russell Evans]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:35:17 -0500
"donjr" <djr1952 at hotpop.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 20:49 -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 05:37:18PM -0500, Nino Pereira wrote:
> > >I have a directory with lots of files, with file names
> > >in capitals. I want to change all the file names
> > >to lower case.
> > 
> > If you have a nifty program called "rename" on your system you can
> > do this:
> > rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
> > 
> > Mike stone
> 
> And the above is even one of the example of usage in the man page for
> the program.


my man page for rename is the following: 
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/rename.1.html

The only one I can find that mentions rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' * is the
following:
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?rename

So I believe there are two programs named rename and, judging by this
thread, the adoption of either one does not seem to be universal.

Thank you
Russell