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Yalla-One

04-18-2006 11:01 AM

shell script for converting filenames to proper case?

Hi,

Does anyone have a shell script to recommend to convert all files in a directory to proper case? (if the character previous to this is space, then capitalize, if not, set lower-case).

I assume there's a clever way to do this with bash+sed+awk, but with limited knowledge I do not even know where to start googling...

Thanks for any pointers or ideas... The ideal thing would be a bash function such as "convert_to_upper()" that took care of it ;)

-Y1

Hko	04-18-2006 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yalla-One

The ideal thing would be a bash function such as "convert_to_upper()" that took care of it ;)

Code:

#!/bin/bash



convert_to_upper() {

    echo "$1" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'

}

Yalla-One

04-18-2006 12:12 PM

Hi and thanks for answering.

Good start, but this only converts lower to upper, not miXeD cAsE to Proper Case (first after space=CAPS - rest small)

Anyone?

-Y1

puffinman

04-18-2006 01:01 PM

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# nicecase - proper case on icky filenames with spaces

foreach (@ARGV) {

  $was = $_;

  $_ = join ' ', map {ucfirst(lc($_))} split /\s+/, $_;

  rename($was,$_) or warn "Couldn't rename $was: $!";

}

Yalla-One

04-19-2006 09:21 AM

Works like a charm - thanks much puffinman!

justanothertechie

11-26-2009 12:08 AM

great solution

Thanks HKO.. that worked just great.

I used it to rename some music files nad it did the job perfectly

chasepeeler

01-29-2010 03:48 PM

bash script

Here is a pretty simple bash script

Code:

#!/bin/bash



for i in $@; do

  i=${i,,}

  echo -n "${i^} "

done

echo

Code:

> ./propercase abcdef ABCDEF aBcDeF AbCdEf abcDEF ABCdef

Abcdef Abcdef Abcdef Abcdef Abcdef Abcdef

>

konsolebox

02-01-2010 02:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chasepeeler (Post 3845389)

Here is a pretty simple bash script

Code:

#!/bin/bash



for i in $@; do

  i=${i,,}

  echo -n "${i^} "

done

echo

You can also omit 'in $@' there. Nice code for bash 4.0.

chasepeeler

02-02-2010 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by konsolebox (Post 3847986)

You can also omit 'in $@' there. Nice code for bash 4.0.

Usually I am all for shortcuts, but I've found in instances like this, the second saved from omitting the 'in $@' usually leads to headaches down the road if the script is modified or used as a basis for a larger script.

What I do wish is there was a way to combine the two string functions into one, like

Code:

echo -n ${{i,,}^}

konsolebox

02-03-2010 02:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chasepeeler (Post 3849792)

That doesn't really apply on my large scripts but well, that's an option.

Quote:

What I do wish is there was a way to combine the two string functions into one, like

Code:

echo -n ${{i,,}^}

Guess we can't do that in bash. Maybe in zsh.

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