* Re: upper/lower case question
@ 1997-10-13 5:16 Earnie Boyd
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From: Earnie Boyd @ 1997-10-13 5:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jmamer; +Cc: gnu-win32
How were the files transfered? Was it a gzip file, tar file, zip file,
or diskette copy? In general I've found that filenames tend to keep
their case. However MSDOS on W95 and WNT have two filenames a short
file name which is always in UPPERCASE and a long filename which is in
whatever case the filename was created in.
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>Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:25:13 -0700 (PDT)
>From: John Mamer <jmamer@anderson.ucla.edu>
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: upper/lower case question
>
>Hi!
> Another newbie question: I have a bunch of files,
>originally written under UNIX, that have arrived at my
>gnu-win32 directory via DOS (am running on Windows NT
>4.0-sp3). The problem is that in the process the file names
>have all been translated to upper case. I tried the obvious
>thing:
>
>cp FILE.C file.c
>
>but it didn't work. I wound up reading each file into
>emacs, and then copying it into a new directory using the
>lower case name. This worked, but it seems, somehow,
>inelegant.
>
>I know that this is the result of a DOS/UNIX
>incompatibility, and not strictly speaking gnu-win32's
>fault, but is there a neater way to do this? (I anticipate
>having to do this in the future).
>thanks
>j.
>
>
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* Re: upper/lower case question
@ 1997-10-13 10:17 Earnie Boyd
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From: Earnie Boyd @ 1997-10-13 10:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jmamer; +Cc: gnu-win32
>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 08:01:08 -0700 (PDT)
>From: John Mamer <jmamer@anderson.ucla.edu>
>To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: upper/lower case question
>
---snip---
>
>I've gotten a bunch of suggestions for how to unzip them in
>lower case. I'm still curious why "cp FILENAME filename"
>doesn't work. I thought maybe I'd set one of the parameters
>wrong in the mount command........
>
---snip---
The reason "cp FILENAME filename" is because to the root filesystem
(MSDOS) they are the same file and you can't copy a file onto itself.
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* Re: upper/lower case question
@ 1997-10-13 5:07 Earnie Boyd
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From: Earnie Boyd @ 1997-10-13 5:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jmamer; +Cc: gnu-win32
How were the files transfered? Was it a gzip file, tar file, zip file,
or diskette copy? In general I've found that filenames tend to keep
their case. However MSDOS on W95 and WNT have two filenames a short
file name which is always in UPPERCASE and a long filename which is in
whatever case the filename was created in.
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>Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:25:13 -0700 (PDT)
>From: John Mamer <jmamer@anderson.ucla.edu>
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: upper/lower case question
>
>Hi!
> Another newbie question: I have a bunch of files,
>originally written under UNIX, that have arrived at my
>gnu-win32 directory via DOS (am running on Windows NT
>4.0-sp3). The problem is that in the process the file names
>have all been translated to upper case. I tried the obvious
>thing:
>
>cp FILE.C file.c
>
>but it didn't work. I wound up reading each file into
>emacs, and then copying it into a new directory using the
>lower case name. This worked, but it seems, somehow,
>inelegant.
>
>I know that this is the result of a DOS/UNIX
>incompatibility, and not strictly speaking gnu-win32's
>fault, but is there a neater way to do this? (I anticipate
>having to do this in the future).
>thanks
>j.
>
>
>-
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to
>"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".
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* RE: upper/lower case question
@ 1997-10-13 1:45 Sergey Okhapkin
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From: Sergey Okhapkin @ 1997-10-13 1:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32, 'John Mamer'
John Mamer wrote:
> 4.0-sp3). The problem is that in the process the file names
> have all been translated to upper case. I tried the obvious
> thing:
>
> cp FILE.C file.c
>
> but it didn't work. I wound up reading each file into
mv FILE.C file.c works fine.
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* upper/lower case question
@ 1997-10-12 21:25 John Mamer
1997-10-13 19:00 ` Charles Curley
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From: John Mamer @ 1997-10-12 21:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32
Hi!
Another newbie question: I have a bunch of files,
originally written under UNIX, that have arrived at my
gnu-win32 directory via DOS (am running on Windows NT
4.0-sp3). The problem is that in the process the file names
have all been translated to upper case. I tried the obvious
thing:
cp FILE.C file.c
but it didn't work. I wound up reading each file into
emacs, and then copying it into a new directory using the
lower case name. This worked, but it seems, somehow,
inelegant.
I know that this is the result of a DOS/UNIX
incompatibility, and not strictly speaking gnu-win32's
fault, but is there a neater way to do this? (I anticipate
having to do this in the future).
thanks
j.
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* Re: upper/lower case question
1997-10-12 21:25 John Mamer
@ 1997-10-13 19:00 ` Charles Curley
1997-10-15 7:51 ` Lassi A. Tuura
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From: Charles Curley @ 1997-10-13 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Mamer; +Cc: gnu-win32
At 09:25 PM 10/12/97 -0700, John Mamer wrote:
>Hi!
> Another newbie question: I have a bunch of files,
>originally written under UNIX, that have arrived at my
>gnu-win32 directory via DOS (am running on Windows NT
>4.0-sp3). The problem is that in the process the file names
>have all been translated to upper case. I tried the obvious
>thing:
>
>cp FILE.C file.c
>
>but it didn't work. I wound up reading each file into
>emacs, and then copying it into a new directory using the
>lower case name. This worked, but it seems, somehow,
>inelegant.
>
>I know that this is the result of a DOS/UNIX
>incompatibility, and not strictly speaking gnu-win32's
>fault, but is there a neater way to do this? (I anticipate
>having to do this in the future).
>thanks
Quick & dirty (from BASH):
mv FILE.C foo.c; mv foo.c file.c
You can probably put together a quick alias to do that in one command.
A little more development would be a perl script to do the same for the
entire directory or tree.
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http://web.idirect.com/~ccurley
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* Re: upper/lower case question
1997-10-13 19:00 ` Charles Curley
@ 1997-10-15 7:51 ` Lassi A. Tuura
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From: Lassi A. Tuura @ 1997-10-15 7:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32
Charles Curley wrote:
> Quick & dirty (from BASH):
>
> mv FILE.C foo.c; mv foo.c file.c
The following script might also work, although you may have to do `mv'
twice:
for f in $*; do
new="`echo $f | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`"
[ "$f" = "$new" ] || mv $f $new || exit 1
done
Surprisingly enough, it converts all arguments file names from upper
case to lower case :-) If you call this script `lc', then invoking it
with `lc *' will lowercase all files in a directory.
//lat
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