Mixed Case Directory Names

[Rejean Proulx]

Can it do recursive renames?  I need that as I have 7000 directories.

 Rejean Proulx
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From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: Mixed Case Directory Names


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> On 11/10/03  7:05 PM -0500, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> > Is there a way of changing a bunch of directories from mixed case to
lower
> > case names?
>
> On my debian system I have the rename program, but I remember if it was
> in its own package or not. I think it will do what you want fairly
> easily. You can try the following.
>
> rename 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' *
>
> That renames everything in a directory, but not recursively. I have
> found rename to ve invaluable when dealing with lots of files which need
> to conform to a naming convension. Good luck.
>
> - -- 
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> Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD
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