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Welcome to bashoneliners.com, a curated collection of practical and well-explained Bash one-liners, snippets, tips and tricks. We aim to make each published one-liner to be of high quality: useful, easy to read, follows best practices, with clear, detailed, accurate explanation. These one-liners should help you automate tasks, troubleshoot problems, whether it be in system administration, file management, networking or programming.

Rename all items in a directory to lowercase names

for name in *; do mv "$name" "${name,,}"; done

April 20, 2013EvaggelosBalaskas

Rename all files in the current directory by capitalizing the first letter of every word in the filenames

ls | perl -ne 'chomp; $f=$_; tr/A-Z/a-z/; s/(?<![.'"'"'])\b\w/\u$&/g; print qq{mv "$f" "$_"\n}'

November 1, 2011bashoneliners