On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:38:27PM -0700, Charlie wrote:
> I have a bunch of folders(several hundred) that I copied over from my Win2k
> partition that I want to rename. Windows names them using a capital letter
> and I want to rename them all to all lower case.
>
> Example: rename Documents to documents
>
> Is there an easy way to do this? I don't want to do all these one at a time.
man tr
so,
#!/bin/bash
find . -type d -mindepth 1 > folderlist
while read line
do
newName=`echo "$line"|tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
echo $newName
#mv "$line" "$newName"
done<folderlist
rm -f folderlist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ l -1
My Documents/
t.sh*
Windows Sucks/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ ./t.sh
./my documents
./windows sucks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ l -1
my documents/
t.sh*
windows sucks/
Uncomment the mv line to actually rename folders if you're sure it won't
mess anything up.
Todd
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