mass renaming to lowecase?

ezzetabi · 2006-09-17 10:12:47

it is possible quickly renaming many files including subfolders to lowercase?[/b]

smoon · 2006-09-17 11:00:03

First two matches from Google:
http://webxadmin.free.fr/article/shell- … we-135.php
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_lowercase_fi … irectories
:shock:

So the easiest way is to install convmv:

# pacman -Sy convmv

and run it:

% convmv -r --notest --lower DIRECTORY

Purch · 2006-09-18 06:22:41

I made some time ago a bash script for this job. It also can remove or substitute space character. This works to directories too as they are special files.

Note: In the script is a sed command that makes _-_ to - conversion.

#!/bin/bash
# Convert filenames to lowercase
# and replace characters
##################################

find . -depth -name '*' | while read file ; do
        directory=$(dirname "$file")
        oldfilename=$(basename "$file")
        newfilename=$(echo "$oldfilename" | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | tr ' ' '_' | sed 's/_-_/-/g')
        if [ "$oldfilename" != "$newfilename" ]; then
                #echo "$directory/$oldfilename" "$directory/$newfilename"
                mv -i "$directory/$oldfilename" "$directory/$newfilename"
                #echo "$directory"
                #echo "$oldfilename"
                #echo "$newfilename"
                #echo
        fi
        done
exit 0

link to script

ezzetabi · 2006-09-18 06:47:11

@smoon
thanks!

@Purch
Nice! I never used tr that way, really nice.

matersci · 2006-09-18 07:51:48

There is also Krename in community

xerverius · 2006-09-18 14:49:16

One word: Thunar

lanrat · 2006-09-19 11:14:01

goooooogle! ;-) (and man rename).

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mass renaming to lowecase?

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