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

[Michael B. Trausch]

James Taylor, on 08/27/2007 08:13 PM said:
> I need to convert a volume with several hundred thousand files with
> mixed case file names to all lower case.
> 
> Any suggestions for a quick, fast and easy utility to accomplish
> this? -jt
> 

For GNU systems (which I assume you are using), and to keep a log, just
in case:

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

Should work with other nasty characters, too, like spaces.

	-- Mike

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