Eric:
Thanks! You guys are great. Unfortunately, I now realize that I am screwed
worse than I thought. How would I easily alter this script to list files in
a case insensitive order? In other words, the idiots who preceeded me
imported a few times into this directory & never paid attention to the case.
Now I have to delete the old timestamped one and keep the latest. If I could
just get them next to each other in sort order it would make the task
bearable. Better yet would be to delete the older of the two.
But I can't even count on the choices being entirely uppercase or lowercase.
In some of these 8.3 format names, the 8 part is upper and the 3 part is
lower. Any suggestions?
Regards,
----Original Message Follows----
From: Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Darryl Röthering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: script to convert filename to lowercase
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 07:59:07 -0700
"Darryl Röthering" wrote:
>
> Can one of you gurus quickly help me with a script? I have a directory
with
> several thousand files named inconsistently with a mix of uppercase and
> lowercase. I need to rationalize these to be named with all lowercase. I
> know you guys will have a dozen ways to do this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Darryl
Try this.
for file in `ls -1`; do
lfile=$(echo $file | tr [A-Z] [a-z])
echo ${file} ${lfile} # chg echo to mv
done
This will change directories too and doesn't work for file names with
spaces such as "My Stuff" without the quotes.
Eric
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