Changing cases of multiple files in different folders
I am a TA for a computer science course and we have a program that flags code that appears to the same as other code that is supplied. In order for the program to check all of the student's programs, the programs all need to be named exactly the same. However, students don't like to follow directions in naming programs.
For example, our students should be naming exam files "exam.f95"
but they sometimes name them "Exam.f95" or "EXAM.f95".
I need to rename all their files to match the correct format, but the files are all in different directories.
I am writing a .sh script to rename the files and run the program. In my script
displays the files with the correct name, but does not actually save them as the correct name. how do I go about actually saving the files with the correct name?
it prints out what I want it to change, but for some reason the 'rename' doesn't seem to work
I am sorry, I am not in front of you system to know why it appears not to work for you.
However, if this, you say that works:
Let's leverage this solution by running:
or if you have a version of bash 4.x
try first as:
Last edited by Aia; 11-02-2014 at 08:29 PM..
Reason: changed from upper to lower
the only problem with that is that it also changes my folder names to lower case, which makes it a pathname that doesn't exist, I can change the folder name to be lowercase If there is no other option, but is there a way around that?
I used
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