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abhishek
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 Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 4:27 am Post subject: Upper case file and directory names |
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| I downloaded an ebook, and all the links have lowecase file and directory names, and the actual file and directory names are uppercase. I want to know a short way of changing all the names. Don't konw any scripting. |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 4:32 am Post subject: Re: Upper case file and directory names |
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| data_the_android wrote: | | I downloaded an ebook, and all the links have lowecase file and directory names, and the actual file and directory names are uppercase. I want to know a short way of changing all the names. Don't konw any scripting. |
| Code: | | perl -e 'while( $_ = shift ) { rename( $_, lc( $_ ) }' * |
It won't descend subdirectories, but that should give you a start. Replace 'lc' with 'uc' if you want uppercase instead of lowercase.
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abhishek
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 4:36 am Post subject: |
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This is what i get when i run it:perl -e 'while( $_ = shift ) { rename( $_, lc( $_ ) }' *
syntax error at -e line 1, near ") }"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| data_the_android wrote: | This is what i get when i run it:perl -e 'while( $_ = shift ) { rename( $_, lc( $_ ) }' *
syntax error at -e line 1, near ") }"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
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Whoops...missing a close parenthesis in there, sorry:
| Code: | | perl -e 'while( $_ = shift ) { rename( $_, lc( $_ ) ); }' * |
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abhishek
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 4:39 am Post subject: |
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That works. Thanks  |
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