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From: tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: HELP converting filenames!
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Date: 13 Oct 89 21:23:00 GMT
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In message <9754@cadnetix.COM>, rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty Carruth) writes:
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|   [A supposed solution that works better with emacs than vi]
|
| First, go to the directory of interest and do 'ls -1 > doit'.  Chmod 777
| doit.  Now, go edit 'doit' and make a macro  which adds a space to the end
| of the current line and then copies that line to its end (making a line
| like 'file' end up as 'file file '), and then changes the added information
| to all lower case, then goes to the next line.  Now, execute that macro 200
| times. Now go back and add the 'mv' command to the front of each line
| (another macro).  Don't forget your #!/bin/csh (or sh), close and save,
| execute it, and you are done.

Oh blecch...	vi			# Edit *no* file.
		!!ls -1			# Get list of files to move.
		:%s/.*/mv & \L&/	# Build mv to lower-case.
		1G!Gsh -x		# Run mv commands.
		:q!			# Don't save *no* file.

--
Yours, etc., Tony Olekshy (...!alberta!oha!tony or tony@oha.UUCP).