Re: Unix-ify File Names

["Octavio Alvarez" <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org>]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:24:57 -0700, Masatran, R. Deepak  
<masatran@research.iiit.ac.in> 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.?

I use something like this:

#!/bin/bash

OLD_FILE_NAME=$1

# You might want to add a y/ rule to remove accents.
NEW_FILE_NAME=`echo "ABC DEF" | sed -e '\
s/ /-/g;
y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/;
'`

mv $OLD_FILE_NAME $NEW_FILE_NAME




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Octavio.