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Convert filenames to uppercase

I would like to recursively convert a series of files and directories within a specified directory to uppercase. What would be the best way to do this?

Why on earth would one want to? It's the other way round!

And that said:
scripting :}

Pseudocode:

Code:

use find to determine max-depth of directory levels.

for depth in `seq 1  maxdepth`

  for i in `find -type d -maxdepth depth -mindepth maxdepth  ` do

    new=(echo $i | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')

    mv i new

  done

  for i in `find -type f -maxdepth maxdepth -mindepth maxdepth ` do

    new=(echo $i | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')

    mv i new

  done

endloop

Cheers,
Tink

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster (Post 3052965)

Why on earth would one want to? It's the other way round!

I'm compiling a bunch of old DOSBox apps/games. When I am finished I want to convert everything to uppercase, just for authenticity's sake.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster (Post 3052965)

And that said:
scripting :}

Pseudocode:

Code:

use find to determine max-depth of directory levels.

for depth in `seq 1  maxdepth`

  for i in `find -type d -maxdepth depth -mindepth maxdepth  ` do

    new=(echo $i | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')

    mv i new

  done

  for i in `find -type f -maxdepth maxdepth -mindepth maxdepth ` do

    new=(echo $i | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')

    mv i new

  done

endloop

Cheers,
Tink

Thank you. I'll give it a shot.