[geeks] Renaming en masse

[Michael Schiller]

On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 05:11 PM, Mike Meredith wrote:

> On Monday 24 February 2003 9:48 pm, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> What's a good way to recursively rename an entire directory
>> structure? So far, I've done this:
>>
>> Is there perhaps a simple solution that I'm missing?
>
> You haven't mentioned which Unix you're using, but Linux will normally
> mount a CD with the filenames mapped to lower case. Whilst it's
> cheating, firing up a Linux machine to do the job is probably the
> easiest method.

According to the mount_hsfs man page Solaris 9 also translates 
filenames to lowercase by default. I believe this is also true for 
earlier versions as well. The man page specifically mentions an option 
to NOT map the filenames to lowercase, but I didn't see one to force 
the lowercase conversion.

-Mike
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