[GRLUG] Shell script needed

[Marc Zuverink]

john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:08:00PM -0400, Marc Zuverink wrote:
>   
>> I am looking for a shell script to run on my /music.  It needs to
>> replace all capital letters in all sub dirs of /music and replacing
>> capital letters with lowercase replace all spaces with underscore in
>> both the sub dirs and the enclosed files.
>>
>> Help with this would really be appreciated!
>>     
>
> Something like this?
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> for filename in *                # Traverse all files in directory.
> do
>    fname=`basename $filename`
>    n=`echo $fname | tr A-Z a-z`  # Change name to lowercase.
>    if [ "$fname" != "$n" ]       # Rename only files not already
>                                  # lowercase.
>     then
>     mv $fname $n
>    fi  
> done   
>
>   
That worked just fine, thank you!

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