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From: dsitze AT thermotrex DOT com (Donald O. Sitze)
Subject: Re: Another vote on the case-sensitivity issue
12 Mar 1998 05:36:26 -0800 :
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To: "Randall" <hezekiah AT rahul DOT net>, <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

-----Original Message-----
From: Randall <randall AT alum DOT mit DOT edu>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 5:44 AM
Subject: Another vote on the case-sensitivity issue

....

>Btw, for those of you fortunate enough to have perl for Win32 installed (I
>gotta do that one of these days!), you might have use for an adaptation of
>the following perl script:
>
>#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
>## tolower.pl:  Convert listed filenames to lowercase
>## Copyright 1997-1998  Randall Whitman
>## May be copied under terms of the GNU General Public License
>
>mkdir Tmp,777 or die "Tmp already exists.";
>chmod 0700, Tmp;
>
>foreach $file (@ARGV)
>{
>    print $file, "\t", lc($file), "\n";
>    system "mv $file Tmp";
>    $outfile = lc($file);
>    system "cp -p Tmp/$file $outfile";
>}
>

for those of you without perl, the following shell script might be useful
++++++++++++++ cut ++++++++++++
#!/bin/bash
# file: smallnames
#     recursively convert all files and directories to lowercase names
# usage:
#     smallnames <directory>
for f
do
   newname=`echo $f | tr A-Z a-z`
   if [ $f != $newname ]; then
      mv $f $f.lc
      echo -e $f \=\> $newname
      mv $f.lc $newname
   fi
   if [ -d $newname ]; then
      cd $newname
      pwd
      smallnames `ls` &
      cd ..
   fi
done

++++++++++++++ cut ++++++++++++

Note this will recursively traverse your directories from the starting
point, so be careful.




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