Converting filenames to lowercase

[Agent007]

Hi all,

Is it possible to convert multiple filenames in a directory to lowercase? how?

thanks,
007

[Faust]

Try a shell script.  I'm guessing it would involve "for file in $1" and tr, but I'm not sure.  I would like to hear how you do it because I'm interested in a similar thing.  Also converting spaces to underscores would be good too.  

[Pantso]

Can you believe that I had a similar question myself? I think that a shell script would propably do the job as Faust wrote, but I really suck at shell scripting.   :rolleyes:  

So, if anyone has an answer to this, could you please share it with us?  

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by Faust:
Try a shell script.  I'm guessing it would involve "for file in $1" and tr, but I'm not sure.  I would like to hear how you do it because I'm interested in a similar thing.  Also converting spaces to underscores would be good too.    

for the underscore i believe something like:
ls | while read item; do mv "$item" `echo "$item" | sed 's/\ /_/g'`; done

might want to double check on the sed part, s and g might need to be reversed. it's been a while but that should work. for subdirectories you could do find instead of ls

[solo]

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:-D

[Agent007]

There is a problem with the script if the directory name is in Uppercase. Is there another alternative?

thanks

[solo]

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Yup, just had to only make the conversions effect the last directory element  

[Faust]

Thanks for that all, now I can get onto prettying up all my files.      
With 85G+ i didn't really want to do all this by hand...  

[solo]

anytime  

[Pantso]

Excellent! Thanks Solo!      

[Agent007]

hi!

The directory thing works now....but not the uppercase to lower case. Am attaching the output below....

 

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mv: `/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/Acqua.gkrellm.tar.gz' and `/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/Acqua.gkrellm.tar.gz' are the same file

mv: `/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/CoplandOS.gkrellm.tar.gz' and `/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/CoplandOS.gkrellm.tar.gz' are the same file

mv: `/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/theme_MonkeyLovers.tar.gz' and `/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/theme_MonkeyLovers.tar.gz' are the same file

In the 1st case, Acqua hasnt changed
In the 2nd, CoplandOS hasnt
In the 3rd MonkeyLovers

thanks,
007

[solo]

hmm try putting this line in front of the `mv' command in the script and post the output here.

echo "$file::$newf"

see, that shouldn't be able to happen because it checks if the files are still the same before it does 'mv'. i might of messed up somewhere (was in a hurry   )

[Agent007]

Here it is....

 

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/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/Acqua.gkrellm.tar.gz::/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/acqua.gkrellm.tar.gz mv /mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/Acqua.gkrellm.tar.gz /mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/acqua.gkrellm.tar.gz
/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/ASDDFASDF_sdakjfkas_aa.zip::/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/asddfasdf_sdakjfkas_aa.zip mv /mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/ASDDFASDF_sdakjfkas_aa.zip /mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/asddfasdf_sdakjfkas_aa.zip
/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/CoplandOS.gkrellm.tar.gz::/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/coplandos.gkrellm.tar.gz mv /mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/CoplandOS.gkrellm.tar.gz /mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/coplandos.gkrellm.tar.gz
/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/theme_MonkeyLovers.tar.gz::/mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/theme_monkeylovers.tar.gz mv /mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/theme_MonkeyLovers.tar.gz /mnt/Setups/linux/window_managers/gkrellm/theme_monkeylovers.tar.gz

[Agent007]

hi!!

Has anyone found a fix for this? or is there an alternative??

thanks