lowercasing file names

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Ya I tried that, and it works fine unless the directory name has a space in 
it. I can even make it work for file names if not for that.
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From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso at themuso.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
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Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: lowercasing file names


> At 10:54 AM 14/06/2004, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>I've got a directory structure which contains some uppercase characters in 
>>the file names. I would like to lowercase every character in the name. 
>>Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to do this? I could write a 
>>little program to walk through the directory structure and take care of 
>>it, but I'd rather not go to the trouble if there is already something out 
>>there that can do it.
>
> I had a few bash scripts written for this purpose, but have since either 
> lost them or deleted them.
>
> I guess you could try something like the following, this is for 
> directories only.
>
> # for dir in `find ./ -type d`; do mv "$dir" `echo "$dir" | tr '[A-Z]' 
> '[a-z]'`; done
>
> hth
>
> Luke
>
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