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| GeorgeM 2006-09-29, 7:01 pm |
| All:
Is there a Unix command that would allow me to copy(cp) a file and have
the target filename forced to uppercase?
ie myfile.dat --> MYFILE.DAT
or is there some Unix shell script code that can do this?
Thanks in advance,
George
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| jmcgill 2006-09-29, 7:01 pm |
| GeorgeM wrote:
> All:
>
> Is there a Unix command that would allow me to copy(cp) a file and have
> the target filename forced to uppercase?
>
> ie myfile.dat --> MYFILE.DAT
>
> or is there some Unix shell script code that can do this?
I'm sure there may be simpler ways to do it, but:
FILE=lower.txt
cp $FILE $(echo $FILE | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z')
Something in this direction may be useful for more elaborate things:
paste <(ls) <(ls |tr 'a-z' 'A-Z') |sed -e 's/^/cp /'
(That won't do the right thing for directories, I'm just trying to give
you a rough idea.)
There's probably a million ways to do this...
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| GeorgeM 2006-09-29, 7:01 pm |
| Thanks Jill, this works great for a file name alone..Actually my
variable includes the filename and full path. What would be a way to do
it with the directory path included?
Thanks,
George
jmcgill wrote:
> GeorgeM wrote:
>
> I'm sure there may be simpler ways to do it, but:
>
>
>
> FILE=lower.txt
> cp $FILE $(echo $FILE | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z')
>
>
>
> Something in this direction may be useful for more elaborate things:
>
> paste <(ls) <(ls |tr 'a-z' 'A-Z') |sed -e 's/^/cp /'
>
> (That won't do the right thing for directories, I'm just trying to give
> you a rough idea.)
>
>
> There's probably a million ways to do this...
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| GeorgeM 2006-09-29, 7:01 pm |
| Thanks Jill, this works great for a file name alone..Actually my
variable includes the filename and full path. What would be a way to do
it with the directory path included?
Thanks,
George
jmcgill wrote:
> GeorgeM wrote:
>
> I'm sure there may be simpler ways to do it, but:
>
>
>
> FILE=lower.txt
> cp $FILE $(echo $FILE | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z')
>
>
>
> Something in this direction may be useful for more elaborate things:
>
> paste <(ls) <(ls |tr 'a-z' 'A-Z') |sed -e 's/^/cp /'
>
> (That won't do the right thing for directories, I'm just trying to give
> you a rough idea.)
>
>
> There's probably a million ways to do this...
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| jmcgill 2006-09-29, 7:01 pm |
| GeorgeM wrote:
> [M]y variable includes the filename and full path. What would be a way to do
> it with the directory path included?
man basename
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