Mixed Case Directory Names

[Luke Davis]

"tolower()", is an awk, not a bash, function.

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:

> I know now, you remove the temp file, create a file with the commands and
> run it.  I had to figure this out, but it is tougher when you don't know the
> language.  There is obviously a tolower function.  I will try to run this
> tonight if I can get the stuff copied to my windows machine as a backup in
> time.
>
>  Rejean Proulx
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis at shellworld.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Mixed Case Directory Names
>
>
> > This should do it for you.  Call it with the root directory of the
> > directories/files whos' names you want to change.
> >
> > For example, if you called it "renamer", and your files were in
> > "/var/www/files/otherfiles", you would do:
> >
> > ./renamer /var/www/files/otherfiles
> >
> > The script follows:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > cd $1 || echo "No such directory." && exit 1;
> > tf=/tmp/renamer.$$;
> > rm -f $tf;
> > ls *[A-Z]* | awk '{print "mv", $1, tolower($1)}' > $tf;
> > source $tf;
> > rm -f $tf;
> > exit 0;
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> >
> > > We need a script in the worst way.  We have 7,000 of them to do.
> > >
> > >  Rejean Proulx
> > > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> > > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
> > > Ham License VA3REJ
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis at shellworld.net>
> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 7:30 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Mixed Case Directory Names
> > >
> > >
> > > > Do you want a script to do them all at once, or can you do it
> manually?
> > > >
> > > > If manyally, just do:
> > > >
> > > > mv DiReCtoRY directory
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Is there a way of changing a bunch of directories from mixed case to
> > > lower
> > > > > case names?
> > > > >
> > > > >  Rejean Proulx
> > > > > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> > > > > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
> > > > > Ham License VA3REJ
> > > > >
> > > > >
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