How to capitalize all files in the current directory using terminal?

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I am trying to capitalize all files in my current working directory using the following command:

ls | awk '{system("svn mv " $0 " " toupper(substr($0,1,1)) substr($0,2))}'

Yet, I am getting the following error message:

svn: '.' is not a working copy
svn: '.' is not a working copy
svn: '.' is not a working copy
svn: '.' is not a working copy

I am on a osx. Could you please help? Thanks in advance.

Have you tried doing one of those `svn` commands manually to see whether it works? Does `svn info` work in that directory? — Chris Page, Jul 13 '12 at 23:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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you should not use ls in scripting, ls is for human presentation of data (and will surprise your scripts with space in names, special folders like . and .. like here and so on...), try instead:

for f in *;do;svn mv $f $(echo $f| tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]');done

See here for other case conversions alternatives, I used tr since awk is not needed here.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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answered Jul 13 '12 at 23:51

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