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From: mrm@sceard.UUCP (M.R.Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Filenames -- converting
Message-ID: <895@sceard.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 21:16:32 GMT
References: <1011@cernvax.UUCP> <3339@cps3xx.UUCP> <655@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> <25879@beta.lanl.gov>
Reply-To: mrm@sceard.UUCP (0040-M.R.Murphy)
Organization: Sceard Systems, Inc.  San Marcos, CA  92069
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In article <25879@beta.lanl.gov> srb@beta.UUCP ( Steve Berger ) writes:
>
> I have a directory with all the filenames in Uppercase letters.
> I'd like to move them all to lowercase.
>
> Is there an easy way to do that?  I figure there must be a way using
> sed  or something, but I haven't figured it out yet, and I don't want to
> go thru and  use  mv to move each file name, that will take me forever.
>
> Any ideas will be appreciated.
>
> Steve Berger
>
> srb@lanl.gov

In all of the followups to this posting that I saw, I didn't notice
anyone mention the possible advisability of checking that the
translation to lowercase of the filename in question might produce
a filename that already exists in the directory in question. This, then,
might cause unwanted or unexpected results if some of the simpler scripts
were used verbatim.

Pedantic, eh?

If I had a dime for each time I've spouted "Oops" or stronger 1.8sec
after hitting <CR> with my right little finger, I could buy a good book
on shell programming :-)

Typing FMT DK0:/VE=DK1: in DOS-11 with a source pack on DK0: and
a scratch on DK1: at 2AM comes to mind.

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