On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
Since I frequently receive files from Microsoft Windows users, is there any
utility to unix-ify file names, that is, use lower case exclusively, use
hyphen as separator, etc.?
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Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>
Not directly, but it's easy enough to do:
#!/bin/sh
#change spaces to hyphens
rename 's/\ /-/g' *$1
#uppercase to lower
for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do
filename=`basename $FILE`
newfile=`echo $filename | tr A-Z a-z`
if [ "$filename" != "$n" ] ; then
mv $filename $newfile
fi
done
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$ ls
New Files.TXT SOME New Files.TXT
$ sh ~/unixfy.sh TXT
$ ls
new-files.txt some-new-files.txt
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