[ale] script or app to set all files to lower case

[Michael B. Trausch]

James Taylor, on 08/27/2007 10:01 PM said:
> Also tested against a subset.
> Got the following error on each file.
> 
> mv: target `' is not a directory: No such file or directory
> 
> left orginal files unchanged.
> 
> -jt

Crap.

Because I made a typo.  :-P

find . | while read OldName; do
	NewName=`echo $OldName|tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
	mv -v "$OldName" "$NewName"
done

I put $i in there instead of $OldName because that's what I usually use
for my code.  Not terribly intuitive, though...

This snippet is fixed.  (See below sig)  One note:  Run it once for each
level of directory recursion you have.  (Because the output of find is
static).

	-- Mike

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mbt at sage:~/Templates-2$ tree
.
|-- GnuCash File.gnc
|-- LaTeX
|   |-- Book Chapter.tex
|   `-- Book Master.tex
|-- OpenOffice.org
|   |-- APA Formatted Paper.odt
|   |-- Balance Sheet.ods
|   |-- Manual Accounting Workbook.ods
|   |-- OOo Presentation.odp
|   |-- OOo Spreadsheet.ods
|   |-- OOo Writer Document.odt
|   `-- Spreadsheet Grapher.ods
|-- Programming
|   |-- C file.c
|   `-- C# File.cs
`-- Web
    |-- Cascading Style Sheet.css
    |-- HTML 4.0 Document.html
    |-- PHP Script.php
    `-- XHTML 1.1 Document.xhtml

4 directories, 16 files
mbt at sage:~/Templates-2$ find . | while read OldName; do
> NewName=`echo $OldName|tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
> mv -v "$OldName" "$NewName"
> done
mv: `.' and `./.' are the same file
`./Web' -> `./web'
mv: cannot stat `./Web/PHP Script.php': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `./Web/HTML 4.0 Document.html': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `./Web/Cascading Style Sheet.css': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `./Web/XHTML 1.1 Document.xhtml': No such file or directory
`./Programming' -> `./programming'
mv: cannot stat `./Programming/C# File.cs': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `./Programming/C file.c': No such file or directory
`./LaTeX' -> `./latex'
mv: cannot stat `./LaTeX/Book Chapter.tex': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `./LaTeX/Book Master.tex': No such file or directory
`./OpenOffice.org' -> `./openoffice.org'
mv: cannot stat `./OpenOffice.org/Balance Sheet.ods': No such file or
directory
mv: cannot stat `./OpenOffice.org/APA Formatted Paper.odt': No such file
or directory
mv: cannot stat `./OpenOffice.org/Manual Accounting Workbook.ods': No
such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `./OpenOffice.org/OOo Spreadsheet.ods': No such file or
directory
mv: cannot stat `./OpenOffice.org/OOo Writer Document.odt': No such file
or directory
mv: cannot stat `./OpenOffice.org/OOo Presentation.odp': No such file or
directory
mv: cannot stat `./OpenOffice.org/Spreadsheet Grapher.ods': No such file
or directory
`./GnuCash File.gnc' -> `./gnucash file.gnc'
mbt at sage:~/Templates-2$ find . | while read OldName; do NewName=`echo
$OldName|tr [A-Z] [a-z]`; mv -v "$OldName" "$NewName"; done
mv: `.' and `./.' are the same file
mv: cannot move `./web' to a subdirectory of itself, `./web/web'
`./web/PHP Script.php' -> `./web/php script.php'
`./web/HTML 4.0 Document.html' -> `./web/html 4.0 document.html'
`./web/Cascading Style Sheet.css' -> `./web/cascading style sheet.css'
`./web/XHTML 1.1 Document.xhtml' -> `./web/xhtml 1.1 document.xhtml'
mv: `./gnucash file.gnc' and `./gnucash file.gnc' are the same file
mv: cannot move `./latex' to a subdirectory of itself, `./latex/latex'
`./latex/Book Chapter.tex' -> `./latex/book chapter.tex'
`./latex/Book Master.tex' -> `./latex/book master.tex'
mv: cannot move `./programming' to a subdirectory of itself,
`./programming/programming'
`./programming/C# File.cs' -> `./programming/c# file.cs'
`./programming/C file.c' -> `./programming/c file.c'
mv: cannot move `./openoffice.org' to a subdirectory of itself,
`./openoffice.org/openoffice.org'
`./openoffice.org/Balance Sheet.ods' -> `./openoffice.org/balance sheet.ods'
`./openoffice.org/APA Formatted Paper.odt' -> `./openoffice.org/apa
formatted paper.odt'
`./openoffice.org/Manual Accounting Workbook.ods' ->
`./openoffice.org/manual accounting workbook.ods'
`./openoffice.org/OOo Spreadsheet.ods' -> `./openoffice.org/ooo
spreadsheet.ods'
`./openoffice.org/OOo Writer Document.odt' -> `./openoffice.org/ooo
writer document.odt'
`./openoffice.org/OOo Presentation.odp' -> `./openoffice.org/ooo
presentation.odp'
`./openoffice.org/Spreadsheet Grapher.ods' ->
`./openoffice.org/spreadsheet grapher.ods'
mbt at sage:~/Templates-2$ find . | while read OldName; do NewName=`echo
$OldName|tr [A-Z] [a-z]`; mv -v "$OldName" "$NewName"; done
mv: `.' and `./.' are the same file
mv: cannot move `./web' to a subdirectory of itself, `./web/web'
mv: `./web/html 4.0 document.html' and `./web/html 4.0 document.html'
are the same file
mv: `./web/xhtml 1.1 document.xhtml' and `./web/xhtml 1.1
document.xhtml' are the same file
mv: `./web/php script.php' and `./web/php script.php' are the same file
mv: `./web/cascading style sheet.css' and `./web/cascading style
sheet.css' are the same file
mv: `./gnucash file.gnc' and `./gnucash file.gnc' are the same file
mv: cannot move `./latex' to a subdirectory of itself, `./latex/latex'
mv: `./latex/book chapter.tex' and `./latex/book chapter.tex' are the
same file
mv: `./latex/book master.tex' and `./latex/book master.tex' are the same
file
mv: cannot move `./programming' to a subdirectory of itself,
`./programming/programming'
mv: `./programming/c file.c' and `./programming/c file.c' are the same file
mv: `./programming/c# file.cs' and `./programming/c# file.cs' are the
same file
mv: cannot move `./openoffice.org' to a subdirectory of itself,
`./openoffice.org/openoffice.org'
mv: `./openoffice.org/apa formatted paper.odt' and `./openoffice.org/apa
formatted paper.odt' are the same file
mv: `./openoffice.org/manual accounting workbook.ods' and
`./openoffice.org/manual accounting workbook.ods' are the same file
mv: `./openoffice.org/ooo writer document.odt' and `./openoffice.org/ooo
writer document.odt' are the same file
mv: `./openoffice.org/balance sheet.ods' and `./openoffice.org/balance
sheet.ods' are the same file
mv: `./openoffice.org/ooo presentation.odp' and `./openoffice.org/ooo
presentation.odp' are the same file
mv: `./openoffice.org/ooo spreadsheet.ods' and `./openoffice.org/ooo
spreadsheet.ods' are the same file
mv: `./openoffice.org/spreadsheet grapher.ods' and
`./openoffice.org/spreadsheet grapher.ods' are the same file
mbt at sage:~/Templates-2$ tree
.
|-- gnucash file.gnc
|-- latex
|   |-- book chapter.tex
|   `-- book master.tex
|-- openoffice.org
|   |-- apa formatted paper.odt
|   |-- balance sheet.ods
|   |-- manual accounting workbook.ods
|   |-- ooo presentation.odp
|   |-- ooo spreadsheet.ods
|   |-- ooo writer document.odt
|   `-- spreadsheet grapher.ods
|-- programming
|   |-- c file.c
|   `-- c# file.cs
`-- web
    |-- cascading style sheet.css
    |-- html 4.0 document.html
    |-- php script.php
    `-- xhtml 1.1 document.xhtml

4 directories, 16 files
mbt at sage:~/Templates-2$

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