[Gllug] Changing case on filenames

[Dylan Brewis]

Cheers guys - this one did the jop just tickety boo

On Monday 04 March 2002 19:42, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 18:41, Dylan Brewis wrote:
> > I've got about 1000 files copied from W9x which are variously in upper
> > and lower case. Is there an easy way to get them all lower case (shell
> > scripts or similar.) I've read thru the bash docs but to be honest they
> > don't make much sense!
>
> I think there is a way to mount the partition in the specified case but
> it is much easier (for me) to write you a one liner:
>
> perl -e 'opendir THISDIR, "."; @files = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir
> THISDIR; closedir THISDIR; foreach $file (@files){rename $file,
> lc($file) };'
>
> An example is:
>
> tc at masterplan:~/tmpp$ ls
> UPPER  lower
> tc at masterplan:~/tmpp$ perl -e 'opendir THISDIR, "."; @files = grep
> !/^\.\.?$/, readdir THISDIR; closedir THISDIR; foreach $file
> (@files){rename $file, lc($file) };'
> tc at masterplan:~/tmpp$ ls
> lower  upper
> tc at masterplan:~/tmpp$
>
> Good luck!
>
> Tim

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