Re: [MLUG] command to change case in filenames?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Mike Miller wrote:

> We have a screwy VMS system that likes to change the names of
> files to uppercase.  When we then move the files to a unix
> machine, they have the 'wrong' filenames -- we want all
> lowercase letters.  So, I'd like a program that will convert
> uppercase filenames to lowercase filenames.  If such a program
> does not already exist, I will write a script to do it.

Well, a cheap, sleazy, not especially secure (but effective) way to
do this is via ftp.  If you do "man ftp", I suspect you'll find the
"case" command that you can use at the ftp> prompt.  When toggled
on, this maps obnoxious ALL CAPS filenames to lower case when used 
with mget.  Unfortunately, sftp does not apparently understand 
"case" and ftp is not secure.  Presumably you can tunnel ftp through 
a secure tunnel, but I'm not an expert on that.

jking

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