Re: Merging dirs with (almost) same name

[Jason DeVita <jdevita@umich.edu>]

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Magnus Therning wrote:
> top/sub1/sub2
> top/Sub1/sub2
> ...
>
> Is there some way (other than mounting a case insensitive file system,
> such as FAT) to merge these directories?

I think something like this could work (in bash, anyway), though you'll 
probably have to do some tweaking:

====================
for dir in $( find top/Sub1 -type d); do
  mkdir -p $( echo ${dir} | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] )
done
for file in $( find top/Sub1 -type f ); do
  cp $file $( echo ${file} | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] )
done
====================

The first loop would create all the non-redundant directories, and the 
second would copy all the files from those directories over.  I *think* 
that will work, but I've been proven wrong in the past...

HTH,
Jason