[Techtalk] Uppercase to lowercase

[Phil Savoie]

Thank you for all of your responses.  I really appreciate this.  Maria B 
thanks for the chuckle.  I too "tried the challenge" but failed miserably 
(hanging head in shame) but thanks to your responses  I can see where I 
tripped over my shoe laces.

Ya learn learn something new everyday.  I just wish I could retain it!

Phil

At 04:18 AM 12/5/2002 +0000, Maria Blackmore wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Phil Savoie wrote:
>
> > Was wondering if anyone had a script they would like to share to convert
> > upercase filenames to lowercase?
>
>Hi
>
>I got a bit bored, so I hacked together some pretty (evil! ;) bash script
>to do it for you, it requires the GNU shell utils or an equivalent to be
>installed in order to work.  I think i've pretty much covered everything
>and tried to make it as safe as possible.  If you find any bugs, let me
>know :)
>
>run it with -h for usage, it'll probably be happiest in /usr/local/bin
>though i've made it not care where it is, and it won't mind what you call
>it.
>
>yes, it's so totally overengineered, but I loved the challenge :)
>
>I've attached it to this email as a plain text attachment, for ease of
>saving to disk
>
>--
>Maria
>BSSFH
>(Bitch Shell Scripter From Hell)