-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [newbie] File conversion Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:34:53 +0100 From: John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Todd Slater wrote: >>John Richard Smith saith: >> >> >> >>>For reasons I need not go into, I transfer *.JPG files across from >>>Windblows to Mandrake and work on them in gimp,and >>>when I'm finished I have a montage of prints I wish to assemble >>>as a composite. >>> >>>I've hit a snag. >>> >>>Winblows names it's files in higher case. >>>Montage(the programme, part of image magic) seems only willing >>>to work with lowercase named files. There are too many to manually >>>retype. >>> >>>How can I convert windblows named *.JPG files to *.jpg named >>>files on the command line ? >>> >>>John >>> >>> > >John, > >montage will work with names with caps. If you are doing a directory, just >use *.JPG instead of *.jpg. > >Todd > > > Todd, You know what it was, it was too damned obvious. John But upon further consideration, and bearing in mind that I will often want to mix and match file images from differing sources it is best to convert all my source image files to the same file format for ease of processing because when it comes to it, the command line is going to get awfully complicated if I have to start allowing for more than one file format. So upon further consideration it is best while my current camera, epsilon1.3( a cheapie I can afford to drop and break if necessary) is not supported in linux, even as a mass storage device, and I must resort to copying across from W2K, to get things organised by converting everything there and then to a single(lowercase ) standard. So currently cd direcory sources,in a shell, and this works, for i in * do mv "$i" "`echo "$i" | tr A-Z a-z`" done but , $ for i in *; do mv "$i" "`echo "$i" | tr A-Z a-z`"; done does not , it doesn't like the "do" bit in one line. I haven't yet tried the perl bash script, would be nice to get that to work. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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