wes@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) (09/25/87)
I realize this may be a trivial thing, but there's no reason for hundreds of people to reinvent the wheel. I'm one of those people who despise uppercase letters in filenames. Therefore, I developed this shell script to translate any upper- case letters in filenames to lowercase. LCASE can also be used on directories. The argument may be either a filename or a directory name. This script was written for sh under System V. # # lcase - shell script to convert any uppercase letters in file # name or directory to lowercase # # Written by wes@ukecc.uucp, 25 Sep 87 if [ $1 ] # Is there an arg? then # Is it a directory? if [ -d $1 ] then ls $1 | (while read filnam # List the files do newname=`echo $filnam | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"` # Translate chars if [ $filnam != $newname ] # Is is the same now? then mv $1/$filnam $1/$newname # If not, change it fi done) else # If not a directory, is it a file? if [ -r $1 ] then newname=`echo $1 | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"` # Translate chars if [ $1 != $newname ] # Is it the same? then mv $1 $newname # If not, change it fi else echo lcase: $1 not found # File not found fi fi else # No argument specified, display usage echo "Usage: lcase {filename | directoryname}" fi # # End of shell script #