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From: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Neat utility to convert uppercase filenames
Message-ID: <PINARD.90Dec10184326@kovic.IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Date: 10 Dec 90 23:43:26 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jay@gdx.UUCP's message of 7 Dec 90 18:39:51 GMT

In article <76@gdx.UUCP> jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay A. Snyder) writes:

   Did you ever do mget from simtel20 or ymodem batch downloads from
   an MSDOS BBS, and get a lot of uppercase files in your directory?
   Well this is a utility that will take all specified files and
   convert them to lower case.

I use this:

#!/bin/sh
# Convert upper case in file names to lower case.
# Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Francois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>, October 1990.

echo $* \
	| tr " " "\012" \
	| gawk '{ if ($1 != tolower($1)) { print "mv", $1, tolower($1) } }' \
	| sh

I'm sure there is a one-liner in Perl to do the same :-).
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