Convert All File Names To Lowercase (Shell, Mac, Linux)

By April 24, 2016March 20th, 2017Blog, Shell/Terminal
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cd into the directory where the files you are working with are located and ls to confirm you are in the right directory. Then run the below command to convert all file names to all lowercase:

 

for f in *; do mv "$f" "`echo $f | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`"; done
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