I know now, you remove the temp file, create a file with the commands and run it. I had to figure this out, but it is tougher when you don't know the language. There is obviously a tolower function. I will try to run this tonight if I can get the stuff copied to my windows machine as a backup in time. Rejean Proulx Visit my family at http://interfree.ca MSN is: rejp at rogers.com Ham License VA3REJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:43 PM Subject: Re: Mixed Case Directory Names > This should do it for you. Call it with the root directory of the > directories/files whos' names you want to change. > > For example, if you called it "renamer", and your files were in > "/var/www/files/otherfiles", you would do: > > ./renamer /var/www/files/otherfiles > > The script follows: > > #!/bin/sh > cd $1 || echo "No such directory." && exit 1; > tf=/tmp/renamer.$$; > rm -f $tf; > ls *[A-Z]* | awk '{print "mv", $1, tolower($1)}' > $tf; > source $tf; > rm -f $tf; > exit 0; > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote: > > > We need a script in the worst way. We have 7,000 of them to do. > > > > Rejean Proulx > > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca > > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com > > Ham License VA3REJ > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis at shellworld.net> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 7:30 PM > > Subject: Re: Mixed Case Directory Names > > > > > > > Do you want a script to do them all at once, or can you do it manually? > > > > > > If manyally, just do: > > > > > > mv DiReCtoRY directory > > > > > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a way of changing a bunch of directories from mixed case to > > lower > > > > case names? > > > > > > > > Rejean Proulx > > > > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca > > > > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com > > > > Ham License VA3REJ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup