Could you propose a way to copy a list of files from one directory to another.
During copying the script should capitalize the first letter of the filename and lowercase all other letters.
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4Are you asking for help, or are you asking me to write it for you?– XyonJan 11, 2013 at 13:03
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2Maybe you should show us some code that proves you tried to solve it and couldn't.– BenjiWiebeJan 11, 2013 at 13:26
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For your consideration:
for i in *;
do
fletter=`echo $i| cut -b 1`; # FIRST LETTER
rest=`echo $i | cut -b 2-`; # THE REST
fletter=`echo $fletter | tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"`;# CAPITILIZE FIRST LETTER
rest=`echo $rest | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"`; # LOWER CASE THE REST
cp "$i" "/target/directory/$fletter$rest" ; # COPY TO DESTINATION
done
Here, * will expand to the files in the current directory. If you want this to be restricted to files only, consider the following:
find . -type f -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' i; do
# rest of the script
done
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@slhck I used this form to allow him to figure it out how to extend the example into more appropriate :
\ls -p | grep -v "/"to process only files - not directories.– mnmncJan 11, 2013 at 20:13 -
2That's a really bad way to process only files and not directories and I would recommend against it, for multiple reasons. See: mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/020 — in your example you should also quote the variables in order to be able to handle files with spaces or globbing characters in their name.– slhckJan 11, 2013 at 20:42