Capitalize every file in a directory, in bash, using 'svn mv'
ls | awk '{system("svn mv " $0 " " toupper(substr($0,1,1)) substr($0,2))}'
obviously, other scripting languages will work just as well. awk has the advantage that it it ubiquitous.
If you have a decent install you should have python, give this a try:
#!/usr/bin/pythonfrom os import rename, listdirpath = "/path/to/folder"try: dirList = listdir(path)except: print 'There was an error while trying to access the directory: '+pathfor name in dirList: try: rename(path+'\\'+name, path+'\\'+name.upper()) except: print 'Process failed for file: '+name
I don't think theres an easy way to do it with bash/sed/tr/find.
I'd make a Ruby/Perl script that does the renaming.
#!/usr/bin/ruby # Upcase.rb ARGV.each{ |i| newname = i.gsub(/(^.|\s.)/{ |x| x.upcase } `svn mv "#{i}" "#{newname}" ` }Then just do
./Upcase.rb foo.txt test.txt test2.txt foo/bar/test.txt or if you want to do a whole dir
find ./ -exec ./Upcase.rb {} +