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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: lowercase filenames
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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
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