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From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
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To: billh@finsco.com, patseal@hyperhost.net
Subject: Re: lowercase filenames
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Bill Hamilton <billh@finsco.com> writes:
> You could write an awk script, making use of the tolower function.
> It could use mv -i or whatever.
> 
> 
> Patrick Seal wrote:
> > 
> > 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)
> >
> 
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 Or - you can use this small shell script; which I think came out of
Unix Review years ago.  I call it "filename.fix", and use it as:

   cd <dir>
   filename.fix | sh -x

filename.fix doesn't actually run the commands; but prints them to
its stdout - so you can validate them...  You could add to this the
code to do the checking you desire...

	- Dave Rivers -


      #!/bin/sh 
      #  ------- filename.fix -----------------
      /bin/ls $* >/tmp/XX$$
      tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' < /tmp/XX$$ > /tmp/YY$$
      echo 'set -v'
      paste /tmp/XX$$ /tmp/YY$$ | sed 's/^/mv /'
      rm -f /tmp/XX$$ /tmp/YY$$


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