> I didn't know that. Does linux support global file name changing so
> that you could replace all instances of "GSC" with "gsc?" and all
> instances of "N" and "S" with "n" and "s"? all this spanning
> multiple directories? I would hate to think of changing each of the
> 9537 file names by hand!
> Dick
It could certainly be done with a combination of 'find', 'tr', 'mv'
and a regex search, but without a *nix box handy here at home to test
it on, I'm hesitant to give you an off-the-cuff command line that
might be subtly wrong and end up eating half of your system... :-)
But, yes, it certainly can be done.
To get you started, read up on 'find', 'mv', 'tr', possibly 'xargs'
and the construction of a "while.." loop. What you want to do is to
search for the files to be renamed, using as tight a match pattern as
you can (using 'find'). Pass each one it find to 'mv' to rename it,
using 'tr' to substitute lowercase letter for upper.
Sorry to be of so little help, but I'm currently running only XP here
at home and it hardly has the command line power of *nix. One way of
doing it could be *something* like :
find -name <regex pattern here> |
while read each
do
mv $each `echo $each | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
done
That will change ALL uppercase letters to lowercase, so if that's not
what you want, don't use it. I offer this only as food for thought,
not a usable example. :-)
Other ways to do it include 'find'ing all the files and writing their
names to a file. In an editor, manually search and replace the text
as you need, then save it to another file. There are then ways to use
those two files in a script or command line loop to rename the
files... ahh, the power of unix! There's always another way to
confuse yourself! :-) All this sounds like a lot of work to rename
some files, but over the long run, learning the unix command line
really pays dividends in the most unexpected places.
--
Len Philpot ><>
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