[geeks] Re: [SunRescue] filenames..

[Wolfgang Engelien]

And off course there was an other error ...
>>Nope, that will try to change anything find finds to lowercase.  Well, it
>>will if you insert a ']' character after the "[a-z".  :-)
>
>Well, when I have the file testfile in TESTDIRECTORY
>./TESTDIRECTORY/testfile
>find will give out 
>./TESTDIRECTORY/testfile
>and the mv command will try a
>mv ./TESTDIRECTORY/testfile ./testdirectory/testfile
>but can't since ./testdirectory in not existent.
>
>The original task was anyway to change the uppercase
>FILENAMES into lowercase filenames - the changing of
>directory names was not mentioned - is maybe not even
>desired.
>
>Based on the previous suggestions a solution would be
>to create a script UP2low which contains
>
>### UP2low - BEGIN ###
>cd $1
>for uppercase in `ls -p * .* | grep -v "/"`
>do

Replace the second loop (which was wrong) with this: 
   mv -i $uppercase `ls $uppercase|tr [A-Z] [a-z]` 2>/dev/null
>done
>### UP2low - END ###
>
>and call this script by
>find . -type d -exec UP2low {} \;

Maybe this finally will do it.
Wolfgang
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