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Old 09-24-2008
Question KSH: recursion into subdirectories?
Hello, I'm scripting a newbie. I'm using KSH on HP-UX. I'm trying to write a script that will change a whole directory of file names into UPPER CASE.

I have the "convert to upper case" part of it working fine:

Code:
ls | while read filename; do
 typeset -u uppercase
 uppercase=${filename}
 mv ${filename} ${uppercase}
done

but it only works on the files in the current directory. I have a bunch of subdirectories and more subdirectories and I need my script to travel up through them all.

How does one do recursion into subdirectories using KSH?

Thanks for your input!!
# 2  
Old 09-24-2008
You might try cp -R and then removing the lowercase files
# 3  
Old 09-24-2008
I replaced the 'ls' with a 'find .' and it appears to do what I want...
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