Unpossibilities…

When saving files to my harddrive I'd like the filenames to be in lowercase. It just seems more clean that way. However, I do not like renaming all files manually. So here's a little bash script that can do this automatically:

#!/bin/sh

if [ -n "$1" ]; then
  let count=0
  while [ "$1" ]; do
    f="$1"
    shift
    if [ -f "$f" ]; then
      lc=`echo $f | awk '{print(tolower($0));}'`
      if [ "$lc" != "$f" ]; then
        mv "$f" "$lc"
        ((count++))
      fi
    fi
  done
  echo "Result: $count files have been changed."
else
  echo "Usage: lowerit file(s)"
fi

An example showing the usage of the above script. See full image

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URL: Wordpress Hack to Debug Themes on a Live Site

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