https://github.com/magnetikonline/make-lowercase-rename

Hacky PHP utility that spits out bash scripts that recursively rename upper-cased filenames to lowercase.
https://github.com/magnetikonline/make-lowercase-rename

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Hacky PHP utility that spits out bash scripts that recursively rename upper-cased filenames to lowercase.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/magnetikonline/make-lowercase-rename
• Owner: magnetikonline
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-02-10T11:06:37.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-02-03T00:44:41.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-26T13:42:25.607Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: bash, hacky, lowercase, php, utility
• Language: PHP
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• Size: 9.77 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Make lowercase rename

Quick, dirty and *hacky* PHP script (with a terrible project name).

Given a source directory, spits out to the console a bash script to recursively rename uppercase filenames to lowercased versions - basically a bunch of `mv "sourcefile" "sourcefilelowercase"` commands. It **will not** modify directories, only the files within.

Something I needed to lowercase around 30,000 digital camera images on a NAS drive which has a rather limited toolchain (BusyBox).

I'm sure I could have done this directly on the NAS using bash, but it proved easier/quicker to:

- Cobble this together

- Run script over NFS share to the files in question

- SCP result over to NAS as bash script

- Run bash script directly on the NAS from it's BusyBox shell

This will be little to *zero* use for anyone else but me.

Tested under PHP 7.2.x.

## Usage

**Note:** The second optional argument `--move-temp` will first move the source file to a temp filename, then back to it's final lowercased filename. This defeats issues with broken filesystems, such as FAT32:

```sh

$ ./makelowercaserename.php \

  "/path/to/files" [--move-temp] >"/path/to/outbash.sh"

```

Or pass in an alternative command for `mv` via `MVCMD`:

```sh

$ MVCMD="git mv" \

  ./makelowercaserename.php \

  "/path/to/files" [--move-temp] >"/path/to/outbash.sh"

```