[ale] scripting (looping through filenames containing spaces)

[Cleveland Flowe]

Ben Phillips wrote:
> 
> SHORT STORY:
> 
> Fix the script below so it outputs the following:
> 
> a b c
> 1 2 3
> 
> It's important that the backquotes (or some other command-substition) be
> there.  The idea is to get 'for' to recognize tokens that have whitespace
> characters in their names.
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> #! /bin/bash
> #
> # Loop through output that contains spaces
> #
> 
>  for i in `echo \"a b c\"; echo \"1 2 3\"`;
>     do echo $i
>  done
> ------------------------------------------
Here's something that does what you want...

#!/bin/bash
find $1 -type d | while read dir; do
  lcdir="`echo $dir | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`"
  if test "$lcdir" != "$dir"; then
    mv -i "$dir" "$lcdir"
  fi
done
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