[PLUG] Converting Uppercase File Names to Lowercase

Paul Munday paulm at freegeek.org
Sat Jun 22 19:37:49 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 12:01 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, wes wrote:
> 
> > here is your problem... after testing, you're supposed to remove the echo
> > and run it again to "do it live"
> 
> wes,
> 
>    If I don't see the correct output echoed to the console then my assumption
> is that running it 'live' will move all file names to one, incorrect one.
The -i switch  to mv will prevent that, since it will prompt you before
overwriting an existing file
(or just -n to never overwrite) the -v switch might also be useful as it
will tell you what it's doing.

Paul

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