[geeks] Re: [SunRescue] filenames..

Greg A. Woods geeks at sunhelp.org
Thu May 24 10:19:22 CDT 2001


[ On Thursday, May 24, 2001 at 09:56:49 (-0500), Bill Bradford wrote: ]
> Subject: [SunRescue] filenames..
>
> Anybody got a script/program that will traverse a directory tree and
> change all filenames to lowercase?

You mean like this simple command-line?  :-)

  find . -print | while read name ; do mv $name `echo $name | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z'`; done

(use "mv -i" if you think there may be any name clashing)

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