Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsj!davet
From: davet@cbnewsj.att.com (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: lowercase routine.
Summary: Here's a shell script
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.022414.9194@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 11 Sep 90 02:24:14 GMT
References: <745@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> <1990Sep7.204741.21613@uwasa.fi>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ
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In article <745@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> pac@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Michael A. Packer) writes:
>does anyone have a routine which can be compiled on UNIX that
>will read the current directory and convert all upcase names
>to lowercase?

This isn't "compiled", but I've been using the following shell script
for about a year with no problems:

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# Rename file arguments to have all lower-case names,
# but don't overwrite existing files.

for FILE in $* 
do
	NEWNAME=`echo $FILE | grep [A-Z] | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
	if [ "a$NEWNAME" != "a" ]
	then
		if [ -s $NEWNAME ]
		then
			echo "mvlower: $NEWNAME already exists"
		else
			echo "mvlower: renaming $FILE to $NEWNAME"
			mv $FILE $NEWNAME
		fi
	fi
done
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If you store this script as "mvlower", then you can do what you want with

	mvlower *

Cheers!
Dave
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