On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:24:57 -0700, Masatran, R. Deepak
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Since I frequently receive files from Microsoft Windows users, is there
any
utility to unix-ify file names, that is, use lower case exclusively, use
hyphen as separator, etc.?
I use something like this:
#!/bin/bash
OLD_FILE_NAME=$1
# You might want to add a y/ rule to remove accents.
NEW_FILE_NAME=`echo "ABC DEF" | sed -e '\
s/ /-/g;
y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/;
'`
mv $OLD_FILE_NAME $NEW_FILE_NAME
--
Octavio.
