Re: Unix-ify File Names

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:

> Since I frequently receive files from Microsoft Windows users, is there any
> utility to unix-ify file names, that is, use lower case exclusively, use
> hyphen as separator, etc.?
>
> --
> Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>

Not directly, but it's easy enough to do:

#!/bin/sh
#change spaces to hyphens
rename 's/\ /-/g' *$1

#uppercase to lower
for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do
        filename=`basename $FILE`
        newfile=`echo $filename | tr A-Z a-z`
        if [ "$filename" != "$n" ] ; then
                mv $filename $newfile
                fi
done


---
$ ls
New Files.TXT  SOME New Files.TXT
$ sh ~/unixfy.sh TXT
$ ls
new-files.txt  some-new-files.txt


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