Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:59:05 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lowercase filenames Message-ID: <19981230215905.A2517@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812301628490.866-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812301628490.866-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net>
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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) a shell script, of course :-) for i in *; do j=`echo "$i" | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'` if [ -e $j ]; then echo "warning: $j already exists, not renaming $i" else mv -f "./$i" "./$j" fi done -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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