Once upon a time Simon Liddington wrote:
>
>
> Can anyone think of an easy way of changing the case of the names of a
> directory tree of files?
This was something I often wanted to do and it seemed like a good
makework Python project while I was learning the language so, I append
a Python script which does more than you want, but it *does* do what
you want - and it will recurse, which I don't think any other solution
posted so far does...
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#!/usr/local/bin/python
#
# Upper/lower case file names
#
import getopt
import glob
import os
import sys
import string
recursing = None # default is not to recurse
files = 1 # and to process files
directories = None # but not directories
verify = None # don't normally say what we're doing
# Now a dictionary mapping command
# names to functions
commands = {'icn': lambda x: string.upper (x[0]) + string.lower(x[1:]),
'lcn': string.lower,
'ucn': string.upper}
stdopts = 'fdarv' # options:
# -f files only
# -d directories only
# -a all (files and dirs)
# -r recurse
# -v verify
#
# Try to change a single name
#
def changeOneName (name, dir, file):
newname = os.path.join (dir, function (file))
if verify:
print "Renaming: ", name, " => ", newname
try:
os.rename (name, newname)
except:
sys.stderr.write (sys.argv[0] + ": cannot access " + name + "\n")
#
# Change case of all names. Test for inclusion of files and/or directories
# Recurse into subdirectories if necessary.
#
def changeName (name): # change case of name
dir, file = os.path.split (name)
if os.path.isdir (name): # a directory
if directories: # change its name?
changeOneName (name, dir, file)
if recursing: # recursing
names = glob.glob (name + "/*") # build list of names
for child in names:
changeName (child)
else: # not a directory
if files:
changeOneName (name, dir, file)
#
# Main code
#
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
function = commands[sys.argv[0][-3:]]
except:
sys.stderr.write ("Usage icn|lcn|ucn [-adlrv] names\n")
sys.exit (1)
opts, args = getopt.getopt (sys.argv[1:], stdopts)
for opt, value in opts:
if opt == '-a':
files = directories = 1
elif opt == '-d':
files = None
directories = 1
elif opt == '-f':
files = 1
directories = None
elif opt == '-r':
recursing = 1
elif opt == '-v':
verify = 1
if not args:
sys.stderr.write ("Usage icn|lcn|ucn [-adlrv] names\n")
sys.exit (1)
for name in args:
changeName (name)
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