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On Monday 02 July 2007 22:47, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Mich writes: |
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> > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings |
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> > which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened |
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> > them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever |
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> > way to change some of them back to lower case (in batches within given |
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> > directorates) so that she doesn't have to do it manually one by one? I |
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> > do not want to change the access times, only the filename case letters. |
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> |
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> Create a script like this, name it lowercase.sh or something, and call it |
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> with "lowercase file1 file2 dir1 dir2". I takes a list of files as |
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> arguments (use * for all), and also works for directories. |
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> So, "lowercase ." should convert all files and directories to lowercase. |
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> |
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> Put the script into your $PATH, or precede it by its path, e.g. |
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> ./lowercase. To test it before possible messing up (I just wrote this |
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> quickly) use the -t option: lowercase -t /path/to/your/files |
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> |
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> |
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> #!/bin/bash |
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> |
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> # parse options (-t only) |
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> while getopts "t" opt |
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> do |
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> case $opt in |
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> t ) |
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> test=true |
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> ;; |
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> * ) |
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> exit 1 |
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> esac |
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> done |
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> |
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> shift $(( OPTIND-1 )) |
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> |
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> # loop over arguments |
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> while (( $# )) |
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> do |
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> file=$1 |
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> if [[ -d $file ]] |
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> then |
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> # call myself |
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> $0 ${test:+-t} "$file"/* |
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> elif [[ -f $file ]] |
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> then |
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> # conversion to lowercase |
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> dir=$( dirname "$file" ) |
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> base=$( basename "$file" ) |
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> lower=$( echo "$base" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' ) |
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> newfile=${dir:+$dir/}$lower |
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> [[ $file -ef $newfile ]] || |
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> ${test:+echo} mv -v "$file" "$newfile" |
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> else |
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> echo "File not found: '$1'" |
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> fi |
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> shift |
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> done |
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> |
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> |
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> Alex |
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Thanks Alex, I was trying your script, but just like Etaoin's script it does |
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not go beyond level 1 in the directory. All the subdirectories and files |
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within them stay in Capital Case. |
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How can I change it to recursively look into the directory? |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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