uppercase to lowercase

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Greetings & Happy New Years To All!

A client of mine FTP'ed their files up to the server and it all ended up being in UPPERCASE when it all should be in lowercase. Is there a builtin command or a script anyone knows of that will automagically convert all files to lowercase?

Please advise asap if you know how...

Thanks!

2

do you want to convert the file names or the contents of the file??

3

Thanks for your reply...

I just want to convert the files names, the directories and all files in the subdirectories to lowercase. File names and directory names only. Not the contents of the files.

I can do the direcotries by hand if necessary as there are only 5 or so but all the darn file names somehow got converted to UPPERCASE by my client....

Thanks again!

4

Try something like this:

#!/bin/sh
# Do the directories first, so that the
# path doesn't change
for each in `find . -type d`
do
newname=`echo $each | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
mv $each $newname
done
# Now to the files...
for eachf in `find . -type f`
do
newnamef=`echo $eachf | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
mv $eachf $newnamef
done

I tested this on my machine real quick, and it worked OK...

Hope this helps.

(By The Way, you'll get some errors from mv if the filename is already lowercase {I even got an error trying to move "." to "."} - you don't have to worry about those...)

5

Thanks it worked!

It justed needed a 'done' statment at the end and it worked perfectly!

Thanks a million!