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

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> I know Jon King will totally disapprove of how I do it, but if
> all the files are in one directory, I do it like this:

Well, I guess if you can't inspire respect, than fear or paranoia
will have to do. :-/  

Seriously, I don't see anything wrong with this as long as there's
only one directory and you know that nobody gives you a maliciously
file name.  (You're pretty unhappy if there's a file "FOO;\ RM\ -RF
*".)

If you've got a hairy, bushy directory tree, than the ftp method or
maybe this together with "find" would be the way to go.
 
> cd directory
> ls | perl -lne 'print "mv $_ ",lc($_)'
> Look it over to check that it will do what you want, then
> ls | perl -lne 'print "mv $_ ",lc($_)' | sh

OK, if you were doing this millions of times, then maybe all of
those "mv"s would get you down, in which case you can do it all
perl-internal using stuff like opendir().  Would I do that?  
Probably not.

jking


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