[oclug] changing file names

[farrellj]

On 24 Mar 2002, Trevor Curtis wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 15:12, b stephen harding wrote:
> > got a large collection of mp3's which i would like to standardize the file
> > names on.  so i would like to convert all the caps to lower case and all
> > spaces to underscores.  hmm... what would be the command for that be?  also
> > this would need to be done recursively as i've got directories going 6 or 7
> > deep.
>
> What you want really is a script of somekind to do this... but, if you
> want to get fancy, you could try this app I just found:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/oggdoctor

	My friend, the oogdoctor,
	He Told Me what to do!
	My friend, the oogdoctor,
	He Told Me what to do!
	I'll rename them on the command line
	When I say this to you (and he said)

	"ls | grep" (and a buch of things I didn't understand)
	"cat them all"  (and some more gibberish)
	and all my files were fixed!


Sorry, couldn't resist!

ttyl
     Farrell