Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!mdivax1!mitchell Newsgroups: alt.sources Subject: Re: Neat utility to convert uppercase filenames Message-ID: <1990Dec11.150025.2119@mdivax1.uucp> Date: 11 Dec 90 15:00:25 GMT References: <76@gdx.UUCP> <2797@cirrusl.UUCP> Reply-To: mdivax1!bb29c!mitchell (Bill Mitchell) Organization: Mobile Data International Lines: 22 Return-Path: Apparently-To: van-bc!rnews In article <2797@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >I think all the programs posted so far have the bug that if you have >files called "x" and "X", they will delete one of them. Here's mine. > > (shell script deleted) Yours is similar to the one I was using, until I saw this one posted: for file in $* do mv -i $file `echo $file | tr A-Z a-z` done The mv program typically refuses to overwrite an existing file and, having failed, leaves the original file in place with its original name. This is free (that's what I paid for it) and comes with a moneyback guarantee. Your mileage may vary. -- mitchell@mdi.com (Bill Mitchell)