Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-08-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 July 2007 00:00, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: Thanks Alex, I was trying your script, but just like Etaoin's script it does not go beyond level 1 in the directory. All the subdirectories and files within them stay in Capital Case. How can I change it to recursively

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: After some tests and minor changes that Alex introduced, I have had success with Alex's script as follows: [snip] You can also get it from here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/utils/lowercase.sh Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-04 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/3/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 02 July 2007 23:08, Willie Wong wrote: from 'info sed' - Examples #! /bin/sh # rename files to lower/upper case... [snip...] (And don't ask me why I remember this particular example being in the sed info page ;p ) WOW! I

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:03, Kent Fredric wrote: If you want something that should work on all linuxes in theory without the need for changing the disk standard to something thats potentially incompatible with a given system ( say for example for some reason your target machine cant for

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-04 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/5/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:03, Kent Fredric wrote: If you want something that should work on all linuxes in theory without the need for changing the disk standard to something thats potentially incompatible with a given system ( say for example for

[gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Mick
Hi All, I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever way to change some of them back to lower case (in batches within given

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Mick wrote: Hi All, I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever way to change some of them back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 2 July 2007 22:59, Mick wrote: Hi All, I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever way to change some of them

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 July 2007 22:08, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS forced down our throats. Aaargh! :-@ To prevent that in the future, make sure that you tick the 'joliet' option under filesystems (in older k3b) or choose

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:08 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS forced down our throats. I wouldn't be quick to blame Microsoft for iso9660. It was designed to be a one-size-fits-all standard so it would work on all (well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mich writes: I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever way to change some of them back to lower case (in batches within

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:59:17PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: Hi All, I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Mick wrote: On Monday 02 July 2007 22:08, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS forced down our throats. Aaargh! :-@ To prevent that in the future, make sure that you tick the 'joliet' option under

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:08 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS forced down our throats. I wouldn't be quick to blame Microsoft for iso9660. It was designed to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 July 2007 23:08, Willie Wong wrote: from 'info sed' - Examples #! /bin/sh # rename files to lower/upper case... [snip...] (And don't ask me why I remember this particular example being in the sed info page ;p ) WOW! I didn't expect so many ways to get this done,