CHANGING file names - (small to CAPITOL)

Tom Christiansen tchrist at convex.COM
Thu Dec 13 01:16:56 AEST 1990


From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist at convex.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmers
Subject: Re: CHANGING file names - (small to CAPITOL)
Summary: 
References: <10617 at uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Reply-To: tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Distribution: usa
Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX
Keywords: small to CAPs

In article <10617 at uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> kyung at uhccux.UUCP (Kyung Lee) writes:
:	Hi everyone, since unix is case sensitive, I'm having some
:	problem with file names...small and CAPs.

This is a feature.

:	Has anyone ever come up with a program that renames all the
:	files in a directory from small letter to CAPs??

That's not the way most people want it changed, you know.  Who
wants all those ugly capitals anyway?  

On the other hand, the poster was looking to changing to capitols.  
He might try:

    mv * /usa/washington-dc/

or some similar incantation.

:	Well, if there is anyone out there who did, drop me
:	an e-mail.  Thanx.

Sheesh, doesn't anyone read the Frequently Asked Questions list
anymore???  There are also a bunch of big, ugly, grody C hacks in
alt.sources on this right now, plus a small, elegant, generic perl
solution as well. :-)

Look around.

--tom
--
Tom Christiansen		tchrist at convex.com	convex!tchrist
"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
 to look at yourself in the mirror the next morning."  -me



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