[ale] script or app to set all files to lower case

[Michael B. Trausch]

Michael B. Trausch, on 08/27/2007 10:09 PM said:
> James Taylor, on 08/27/2007 10:04 PM said:
>> It's an iSCSI NSS (Novell Storage System) mounted directly on an OES Linux server.
>> Essentially a customized SLES9 server with NSS file system drivers.
>>
>> I forgot to mention that I have a folder depth of at least 20.
>>
> 
> Oh.
> 
> Mine is out; you'll need a for loop to run at least that many times.
> 
> You could do:
> 
> for i in `seq 1 30`; do
> 	find . | while read OldName; do
> 		NewName=`echo $OldName|tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
> 		mv -v "$OldName" "$NewName"
> 	done
> done
> 
> You might want to get rid of the -v on mv though, or redirect output to
> a file.
> 
> 	-- Mike
> 

Actually, better solution.  "-depth" makes it reverse order:

find . -depth | while read OldName; do
	NewName=`echo $OldName|tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
	mv -v "$OldName" "$NewName"
done


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