[Techtalk] real life kewl text-processing

[Conor Daly]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 03:16:19PM -0600 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Kathryn Hogg thought:
> 
> A simple enhancement which I use in a similar script is to allow the
> filenames to have path components.  In this case, you want to leave the
> patch components alone and only lowerize the filename component:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> for file in $*
> do
>   pathname=$(dirname $file)
>   filename=$(basename $file)
>   newfile=$(echo $file | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
                   ^^^^^
Shouldn't that be $filename?  Otherwise you end up lowercasing the path
also...

>   if [ $filename != $newfile ]
>   then
>      mv $file $pathname/$newfile
>   fi
> done

Conor
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