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

[James Taylor]

Also tested against a subset.
Got the following error on each file.

mv: target `' is not a directory: No such file or directory

left orginal files unchanged.

-jt



James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
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james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
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>>> "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> 08/27/07 8:46 PM >>> 
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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