HELP: shell script to change filenames to lower-case?

[WilsonCPU]

Does anyone know how to write a shell script to change all the filenames
in a directory to their lower-case values? I'm developing under Win95
(which rather capriciously capitalizes things), and FTPing the results to
SUN SOLARIS. Since WIn95 doesn't care about the capitalization, my
"standard" is that all filenames are assumed to be lower-case; since they
aren't when they get to the UNIX box, naturally my files fail to work
properly. If I can force them to lower-case after the FTP that'd be great.
Any ideas? Please email me at Wils...@aol.com - thanks!
(I know I'd use "mv", but I'm not sure how to (a) write the loop, and (b)
MOST important, how to do the conversion!
- Mark
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Mark A. Wilson
Computer Programming Unlimited
email: Wils...@aol.com
WWW: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6646

[WilsonCPU]

Does anyone know how to write a shell script to change all the filenames
in a directory to their lower-case values? I'm developing under Win95
(which rather capriciously capitalizes things), and FTPing the results to
SUN SOLARIS. Since WIn95 doesn't care about the capitalization, my
"standard" is that all filenames are assumed to be lower-case; since they
aren't when they get to the UNIX box, naturally my files fail to work
properly. If I can force them to lower-case after the FTP that'd be great.
Any ideas? Please email me at Wils...@aol.com - thanks!

[Warren Jones]

wils...@aol.com (WilsonCPU) writes:

> Does anyone know how to write a shell script to change all the filenames
> in a directory to their lower-case values?

#! /bin/ksh

typeset -l new

for file in *
do
new=$file
test "$file" != "$new" && mv -i $file $new
done

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[Jeremy Mathers]

In article <19970919210...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,

WilsonCPU <wils...@aol.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know how to write a shell script to change all the filenames

>in a directory to their lower-case values? I'm developing under Win95
>(which rather capriciously capitalizes things), and FTPing the results to
>SUN SOLARIS. Since WIn95 doesn't care about the capitalization, my
>"standard" is that all filenames are assumed to be lower-case; since they
>aren't when they get to the UNIX box, naturally my files fail to work
>properly. If I can force them to lower-case after the FTP that'd be great.

Everyone else posts the standard shell script to lowercase the names; the
adventurous will post Perl or AWK solutions, but the real answers, in order,
are:
1) Read the FAQ
2) Read the FAQ!
3) Read the FAQ!!
4) Read the FAQ!!!
5) Use the 'case' command in FTP, which is designed to do exactly
what you need.

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