Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > After some tests and minor changes that Alex introduced, I have had > success with Alex's script as follows: [snip] You can also get it from here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/utils/lowercase.sh Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-08-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 July 2007 00:00, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mick writes: > > Thanks Alex, I was trying your script, but just like Etaoin's script it > > does not go beyond level 1 in the directory. All the subdirectories and > > files within them stay in Capital Case. > > > > How can I change it to recur

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-09 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 8 July 2007 23:18, Mick wrote: > Thanks Alex, I was trying your script, but just like Etaoin's script > it does not go beyond level 1 in the directory. All the > subdirectories and files within them stay in Capital Case. > > How can I change it to recursively look into the directory? O

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > Thanks Alex, I was trying your script, but just like Etaoin's script it > does not go beyond level 1 in the directory. All the subdirectories and > files within them stay in Capital Case. > > How can I change it to recursively look into the directory? That's strange. I tried that

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 July 2007 22:47, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mich writes: > > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings > > which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened > > them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever > > way

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-04 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/5/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:03, Kent Fredric wrote: > If you want something that should work on all linuxes in theory > without the need for changing the disk standard to something thats > potentially incompatible with a given system ( say for example

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:03, Kent Fredric wrote: > If you want something that should work on all linuxes in theory > without the need for changing the disk standard to something thats > potentially incompatible with a given system ( say for example for > some reason your target machine cant fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-04 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/3/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 02 July 2007 23:08, Willie Wong wrote: > from 'info sed' -> Examples > > #! /bin/sh > # rename files to lower/upper case... [snip...] > (And don't ask me why I remember this particular example being in the > sed info page ;p ) WOW!

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 July 2007 23:08, Willie Wong wrote: > from 'info sed' -> Examples > > #! /bin/sh > # rename files to lower/upper case... [snip...] > (And don't ask me why I remember this particular example being in the > sed info page ;p ) WOW! I didn't expect so many ways to get this don

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:08 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS > > forced > > down our throats. > > I wouldn't be quick to blame Microsoft for iso9660. It was designed to > be

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Mick wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2007 22:08, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS > > forced down our throats. > > Aaargh! :-@ > > > To prevent that in the future, make sure that you tick the 'joliet' > > optio

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:59:17PM +0100, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > Hi All, > > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which > unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 > characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a c

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mich writes: > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings > which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened > them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever > way to change some of them back to lower case (in batches within

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:08 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS > forced > down our throats. I wouldn't be quick to blame Microsoft for iso9660. It was designed to be a one-size-fits-all standard so it would work on all (well

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 July 2007 22:08, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > that wasn't k3b - that is an limitation of iso9660. A limitation MS forced > down our throats. Aaargh! :-@ > To prevent that in the future, make sure that you tick the 'joliet' option > under filesystems (in older k3b) or choose 'linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 2 July 2007 22:59, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings > which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened > them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a > clever way to change some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 2. Juli 2007, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which > unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 > characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever way to > change some of them ba

[gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-02 Thread Mick
Hi All, I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever way to change some of them back to lower case (in batches within given dir