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From: ag@cbmvax.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: moving upper case names to lower case
Message-ID: <7736@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 89 17:02:23 GMT
References: <20672@adm.BRL.MIL> <9326@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: ag@cbmvax.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <9326@chinet.chi.il.us> john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt) writes:
>In article <20672@adm.BRL.MIL> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty) writes:
>>I'm looking for a good, clean way to move files from upper case names to
>>lower case names.
>>
>>i.e. FOO.C to foo.c
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <ctype.h>
>
>main()
>{
>	register int c;
>	while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
>		putchar(tolower(c));
>}
>
>It's easier to write and compile this than to get tr to massage
>the string for you.  

Observe.

(the bourne shell)

$ for i in * ; do mv $i `echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` ; done

Or:

$ find . -type f -print | 
> while read filename
> do
>       mv $filename `echo $filename | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
> done

Your code didn't solve any complex problem.  The only thing removed
from the above two commands is:

	tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'

and it would be replaced the name of the program you gave above (possibly
called 'mybrokentrwhichdoesnottakearguemnts' or maybe 'tolower').

On top of it all your solution would take compile time.

Pax, Keith
-- 
 "It took no computation to dance to the rock 'n roll station" -- Lou Reed
  ag@cbmvax.commodore.com     Keith M. Gabryelski      ...!uunet!cbmvax!ag