lowercasing file names

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Thanks I'll try it out. The verification is actually not necessary if 
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From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
To: "Speakup List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: lowercasing file names


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> On Jun 13 2004  6:54 PM, 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.
>
> The perl package comes with a rename utility that works wonderfully for
> this.
>
>  rename 'tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/' *
>
>  This utility can be used for any number of other transformations on
>  filenames and it gives you all perl's pattern matching to work with.
>  You could probably write the same utility in a matter of minutes, but
>  there it is. I think it even handles collisions of names gracefully.
>
>  HTH
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> Well I certainly want to get verified. :)
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> Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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