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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:44:43 -0600
To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
From: Don Read <sysop@calcasieu.com>
Subject: Re: lowercase filenames
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back on 04:34 PM 12/30/98 -0500, you said:
>I have a directory with filenames like:
>FOO.xxx
>Bar.yyy
>hex.zzz 
>
>What would be the easiest way to convert them to lowercase (and possibly
>checking for existing lowercase counterparts before overwriting them)

#!/bin/sh

for old in *[A-Z]*
do
        new=`echo "$old" | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"`
        mv $old $old.tmp
        if [ -f "$new" ]
        then
                echo backup $new "->"  $new.bak
                mv $new $new.bak
        fi
        echo $old "->" $new
        mv $old.tmp $new
done

Regards,
-- 
Don Read                               sysop@calcasieu.com
EDP Manager                                dread@texas.net
Calcasieu Lumber Co.                             Austin TX
- Ya jes' mash that button, rite jher


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