I'm currently running some tests for a customer, with WABI and OS/2
Lan Server. We have installed TCP/IP and NFS for OS/2, made the OS/2
machine an NFS Server, exported a directory containing Windows
applikations and mounted it on a RS/6000 with WABI. All the filenames
are shown with capital letters, when I do a "ls" in AIX. I beleive
this is due to differences between AIX and OS/2 filsystems.
Unfortunately, WABI does not recognize these filenames. I can get
around this problem by making a link, from a lowercase filename to
to the NFS files, but this is not a good sollution for the customer.
My question is:
Is there any way I can make WABI ignore upper and lowercase filenames?
ANSWER
You wish to convert your upper case file names to lower case.
The following is a shell script to accomplish this task. I chose
to use "tr" (Berkely version) rather than "xargs", because "tr"
is much better at this task. I chose the Berkely version of tr,
since it does not require the single quotes.
To run, create the script in the directory where all the files
exist, chmod the script, and execute it. It will copy itself and
all other files in that directory to the subdirectory. There are a
couple of "niceties" that could be added, but I'll leave that up to
you.
#¢/bin/ksh
# This shell script will copy all the files in the current directory to
# a subdirectoy called "nocaps", AND change all capital letters in
# each filename to lower case.
/bin/mkdir nocaps # causes error message if directory exists
for i in *
do
FN=`echo $i | /usr/ucb/tr A-Z a-z`;
echo $FN
/bin/cp $i ./nocaps/$FN; # causes error msg for trying to cp dir.
done
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
UPPER CASE TO LOWER CASE FILENAMES
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