Can it do recursive renames? I need that as I have 7000 directories. Rejean Proulx Visit my family at http://interfree.ca MSN is: rejp at rogers.com Ham License VA3REJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:20 AM Subject: Re: Mixed Case Directory Names > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/10/03 7:05 PM -0500, Rejean Proulx wrote: > > Is there a way of changing a bunch of directories from mixed case to lower > > case names? > > On my debian system I have the rename program, but I remember if it was > in its own package or not. I think it will do what you want fairly > easily. You can try the following. > > rename 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' * > > That renames everything in a directory, but not recursively. I have > found rename to ve invaluable when dealing with lots of files which need > to conform to a naming convension. Good luck. > > - -- > Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more > carefully than others. > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/sP5Z5JK61UXLur0RAgVfAJ9j8unxuA1Zim+BywJSgmTpH+O0AgCfdvQb > w4C7BHNo/JVG1iWqHtpccRQ= > =H5dY > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
