In a message dated: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:24:52 EST
Kurth Bemis said:
>thanks to Microsoft and their wisdom i now have ~200 files that used to be
>all lowercase...now their all caps. their web sites so now everything is
>broken. does anyone know or a util or a script that will let me make all
>the filenames lowercase?
I haven't read Ben's response yet, so I don't know if your question has been
answered, but in the name of TMTOWTDI, I offer this as a potential solution:
for i in `find ./ -type f`
do
DIR=`dirname $i`
FILE=`basename $i`
NEW=`echo $FILE | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`
cp $DIR/$FILE $DIR/$NEW
done
You can replace the 'cp' with 'mv' if you're really confidant :)
All this does for those who can't read shell code is:
- runs the find command in the current directory looking for "regular"
files (i.e. not directories)
- Saves the directory name of the file in DIR
- Saves the file name in FILE
- echos the file name in FILE and pipes it through the 'tr' command
which translates all uppercase to lowercase and saves the result
in NEW
- copies the old filename containing uppercase to the same name
only all lowercase
This may or may not do what you need, but it does do exactly what I just
described. You could also probably solve this with 1-2 lines of perlcode
as well :) (Anyone up for that?)
HTH,
--
Seeya,
Paul
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