topic Re: lower case/upper case question in Operating System - HP-UX

lower case/upper case question

Luca Frigatti — Mon, 02 Sep 2002 12:59:45 GMT

Hi All!!!
I've the following question.
I write a shell script that copy a list of file from one directory to another.
This files came from a Windows system and when I transfer them from Windows to UNIX the name of the files are in the lower case.
I need to copy these file to another directory in upper case. For example:
in /home/luca/app/ I've the following file : abcde.txt.
I need to copy this file in the directory /home/luca2/final like ABCDE.txt.
Is there a function to help me?
Does anybody have avy suggestion? Any idea?
Thanks in advance for your help and your support.
Regards.
Luca

Re: lower case/upper case question

Steve Steel — Mon, 02 Sep 2002 13:05:19 GMT

Hi

Standard shell typeset. see man sh-posix

-u Convert all lowercase characters to uppercase characters.
The lowercase -l option is turned off. Flagged as
uppercase.

typeset -u lala=lala
echo $lala
LALA

Steve Steel

Re: lower case/upper case question

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Mon, 02 Sep 2002 13:16:49 GMT

Hi

One method for copy files to new directory,translating lower to upper in filename but keep lower in extension.

file=/home/luca/app/abcde.txt
cp $file /home/luca2/final/`basename $file .txt | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`.txt

Re: lower case/upper case question

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Mon, 02 Sep 2002 13:20:46 GMT

Sorry

I had shifted upper and lower.

file=/home/luca/app/abcde.txt
cp $file /home/luca2/final/`basename $file .txt | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`.txt

Re: lower case/upper case question

harry d brown jr — Mon, 02 Sep 2002 13:30:11 GMT

W$ (windows) could care less what the case of the filename is, and if unix receives the file names in lowercase, then this is GOOD!

If you really want to then you need something like this:

cd /home/luca/app;find . -type f | awk '{loname=$1; upname=toupper($1); doit="mv
" loname " /home/luca2/final/" upname; system(doit);}'

live free or die
harry