[PLUG] Converting Uppercase File Names to Lowercase

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:42:15AM -0700, wes wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, Bill Barry wrote:
> >
> > > Remove the second echo
> > >     echo mv -i "${FiLe}" "${file}"
> > > ->
> > >      mv -i "${FiLe}" "${file}"
> >
> >    Wil suggested the second echo to test before borking the files.
> >
> here is your problem... after testing, you're supposed to remove the echo
> and run it again to "do it live"
 
Simplier would be to just pipe the verified output into your shell, assuming bash:


michael at bivy:/srv/photo/365_2012/this_month/296_Jun_21/t$ ls
OM211853.JPG  OM211854.JPG  OM211863.JPG  OM211864.JPG  tsh
michael at bivy:/srv/photo/365_2012/this_month/296_Jun_21/t$ ./tsh        # run to verify, "tsh" is Rich's original script
mv -i OM211853.JPG om211853.jpg
mv -i OM211854.JPG om211854.jpg
mv -i OM211863.JPG om211863.jpg
mv -i OM211864.JPG om211864.jpg
mv -i tsh tsh
michael at bivy:/srv/photo/365_2012/this_month/296_Jun_21/t$ ./tsh | bash # sent to shell for execution
mv: `tsh' and `tsh' are the same file
michael at bivy:/srv/photo/365_2012/this_month/296_Jun_21/t$ ls           # verify results
om211853.jpg  om211854.jpg  om211863.jpg  om211864.jpg  tsh
michael at bivy:/srv/photo/365_2012/this_month/296_Jun_21/t$ 

Though I'd suggest changing 

for FiLe in *; do
  to 
for FiLe in $@; do

and then you'd run the script with arguments about what you really want to change, for example:

  ./tsh *JPG

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