[Samba] file names convert

[Michael Wood]

On 17 September 2010 18:48, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:24:29AM +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
>> No, it does not:
>>
>> $ touch "File With Spaces.txt"
>> $ touch "Other File Also With Spaces.txt"
>> $ touch lowercase.txt
>> $ touch duplicate.txt
>> $ touch DUPLICATE.txt
>> $ for f in *; do lower="`echo $f | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`"; if [ "$f"
>> != "$lower" ]; then mv -i "$f" "$lower"; fi; done
>> mv: overwrite `duplicate.txt'? n
>> $ ls -l
>> total 0
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 0 2010-09-17 10:19 duplicate.txt
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 0 2010-09-17 10:19 DUPLICATE.txt
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 0 2010-09-17 10:18 file with spaces.txt
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 0 2010-09-17 10:19 lowercase.txt
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 michael michael 0 2010-09-17 10:19 other file also with spaces.txt
>
> Oh I see, I missed that it did actually have quotes for the mv.  Yeah the
> echo doesn't matter.
>
> I do wonder if it would work if you had two spaces in a row.  I suspect
> it would compact multispace to one space.  Probably would convert tabs
> to spaces too.  Probably not a common case, but hey gotta make sure it
> is perfect.

hmmm...  You got me there.

[...]
>> > How about "rename 's/(.*)/\L$1\E/' filenames" ?
>>
>> Ah, I wasn't aware of that.  Thanks.
>
> It's a handy tool that comes with perl I believe.  So the regex is
> perl regex.

Yes, I noticed :)

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Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>