On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:18:24PM +0100, Fergal Moran wrote:
> > Assuming you want to rename the directories as well as the files:
> >
> > find /path/to/folder -print | while read x ; do
> > mv $x $(echo $x | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z')
> > done
> Cheers Colm
> That almost worked - it did everything in the root folder and one directory
> deep - but did not work any deeper than that - while it was running there
> were a load of messages like
>> mv: cannot stat `/home/www/docs/oracle/server.815/A58231/CH2A.GIF': No such
> file or directory
The find will always be way ahead of the renamer. So if it moves in a dir
that's going to get renamed it'll all go pear shaped. Find will still
outputting file names with the old name of the dir even after it's got a new
name,
Fergal
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