On 16 September 2010 16:51, Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 01:38:05PM +0200, Michael Wood wrote: >> On 16 September 2010 09:02, Alessio Tomelleri - ARPAV Dipartimento di >> Belluno <[email protected]> wrote: >> > ..maybe could be useful this command ?! get a closer look "man tr" >> > >> > tr [:upper:] [:lower:] < myfile >> >> He wants to change the filename, not the contents :) >> >> > maybe, inserting it in a script as well... >> >> Try something like: >> >> for f in *; do > > Breaks on filenames with spaces.
No, it does not: $ touch "File With Spaces.txt" $ touch "Other File Also With Spaces.txt" $ touch lowercase.txt $ touch duplicate.txt $ touch DUPLICATE.txt $ for f in *; do lower="`echo $f | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`"; if [ "$f" != "$lower" ]; then mv -i "$f" "$lower"; fi; done mv: overwrite `duplicate.txt'? n $ ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 0 2010-09-17 10:19 duplicate.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 0 2010-09-17 10:19 DUPLICATE.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 0 2010-09-17 10:18 file with spaces.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 0 2010-09-17 10:19 lowercase.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 0 2010-09-17 10:19 other file also with spaces.txt >> lower="`echo $f | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`" >> if [ "$f" != "$lower" ]; then >> mv -i "$f" "$lower" >> fi >> done >> >> The "mv -i" is in case you have a file called "README.txt" and another >> one called "Readme.txt" in the same directory. >> >> Please try it out on some test files before running it in production. > > How about "rename 's/(.*)/\L$1\E/' filenames" ? Ah, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks. -- Michael Wood <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
