-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ya I tried that, and it works fine unless the directory name has a space in it. I can even make it work for file names if not for that. - --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact if quoting me in a reply. Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Cc: "Speakup List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 7:17 PM Subject: Re: lowercasing file names > At 10:54 AM 14/06/2004, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: >>Hi all, >>I've got a directory structure which contains some uppercase characters in >>the file names. I would like to lowercase every character in the name. >>Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to do this? I could write a >>little program to walk through the directory structure and take care of >>it, but I'd rather not go to the trouble if there is already something out >>there that can do it. > > I had a few bash scripts written for this purpose, but have since either > lost them or deleted them. > > I guess you could try something like the following, this is for > directories only. > > # for dir in `find ./ -type d`; do mv "$dir" `echo "$dir" | tr '[A-Z]' > '[a-z]'`; done > > hth > > Luke > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQM0cdienap9Jqj2wEQKL/gCfZzmX3hcoRAwChSBl14fXDhNgeNkAoMXL nqVi9BBZG1TqIaoT9OHl1zx+ =18z1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
