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Old 03-04-2005
How convert lowercase or uppercase

It will only accept one argument where it should be upper or lowercase. if user choose to convert filnames to upper case than it should convert to upper or vice versa. if no action taken by the user then should not do anything


any of the files in the current directory.
# 2  
Old 03-04-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex20
It will only accept one argument where it should be upper or lowercase. if user choose to convert filnames to upper case than it should convert to upper or vice versa. if no action taken by the user then should not do anything


any of the files in the current directory.
pls post what you've got and where you're having problems.
# 3  
Old 03-04-2005
Code:
if test $# -ne 1
then
   echo "wrong number of args: $0 flags[-l][-u] "
   return
fi

if test $1 = "-l"
then
    tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" < file1
elif test $1 = "-u"
then
    tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]" < file1
else
    echo "wrong options: [-l][-u]"
fi

# 4  
Old 03-05-2005
Use this script to change case name of all files in the current directory as,

Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Muthukumar
# Script to change name from upper to lower / lower to upper
# <usage> [lower | upper]

if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]
then
  echo "Usage: $0 [lower|upper]"
  exit 1
fi

for file in `find . -type f`
do
  if [[ "$1" = "lower" ]]
  then
    mv $file $(echo $file | tr [[:upper:]] [[:lower:]])
  elif [[ "$1" = "upper" ]]
  then
    mv $file $(echo $file | tr [[:lower:]] [[:upper:]])
  else
    echo "Unknown option $1. Use upper | lower"
    exit 1
  fi
done

exit 0
## END ##

HTH.
# 5  
Old 03-05-2005
If you want to ensure arguments past into your program are in the correct case, you should use typeset -u to convert to uppercase and typeset -l to convert to all lowercase.
# 6  
Old 03-07-2005
hello i need your help
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