-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks I'll try it out. The verification is actually not necessary if posting to the speakup list. I only put that in my signature in case someone replies directly to me. - --- 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: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 10:38 AM Subject: Re: lowercasing file names > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Jun 13 2004 6:54 PM, 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. > > The perl package comes with a rename utility that works wonderfully for > this. > > rename 'tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/' * > > This utility can be used for any number of other transformations on > filenames and it gives you all perl's pattern matching to work with. > You could probably write the same utility in a matter of minutes, but > there it is. I think it even handles collisions of names gracefully. > > HTH >> Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 > > Well I certainly want to get verified. :) > > - -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAzdSc5JK61UXLur0RAu6YAJ9NJXd/MELU9UOzmCBIv2Z5BGvQNACeOPIM > Y3En3cCvtvX1HOsT337rQx0= > =rvkt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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/AwUBQM5YFyenap9Jqj2wEQL9EQCeNfesEvsBYNDaW5d888w7c6Omd20AoPhS wclP6igzr3etemtVWKqb96SQ =zX78 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
