Cut a field in a string with bash

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I need to lower all upper-cases of file and folder names from a path, recursively inside other folders found; I need to do that with a bash script.

Here my code:

for file in $(find $1 -type f)
do
    tmp=$(echo $file | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | tr ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)
    tmp2=$(echo $file | rev | cut ????)
    tmp=$tmp$tmp2
    mv $file $(echo $tmp | rev)
done
for file in $(find $1 -type d | sort -r)
do
    tmp=$(echo $file | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | tr ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)
    tmp2=$(echo $file | rev | cut)
    tmp=$tmp$tmp2
    mv $file $(echo $tmp | rev)
done

The problem is at line 4, [tmp2=$(echo $file | rev | cut ????)] I don't know how I can select all the fields delimited with / after the first field.

With line 3 I can isolate the file name and with the tr command modify all upper-cases, but then comes the trouble. Same for folders t the second 'for' construct.

Stéphane Chazelas · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-29 21:28:23Z

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You should be using dirname and basename instead of these tricks with rev and cut

declare -l file_lower   # anything assigned to this varname will be lower-cased

find $1 -type f | while read -r file
do
    file_lower=$(basename "$file")
    dir=$(dirname "$file")
    mv "$file" "$dir/$file_lower"
done

find $1 -type d | sort -r | while read -r file
do
    file_lower=$(basename "$file")
    dir=$(dirname "$file")
    mv "$file" "$dir/$file_lower"
done

edited Nov 29, 2013 at 21:28

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answered Nov 29, 2013 at 18:48

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That assumes file names don't contain newline characters and don't end in space or tab characters. It interprets the first argument as a list of file patterns. sort -r doesn't do what you (and the OP) think it does as there are several characters that sort before / (you want -depth here).

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2013-11-29 21:25:48 +00:00
Commented Nov 29, 2013 at 21:25

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SF. · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-29 18:22:21Z

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cut -d/ -f 2-

Cut supports ranges for its offset parameter, e.g. -f 2- , -c -2, -b 1-3

answered Nov 29, 2013 at 18:22

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Stéphane Chazelas · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-29 21:19:08Z

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On a GNU system:

find . -depth -name '*[[:upper:]]*' -printf '%h\0%f\0' |
  awk -v RS='\0' '{getline f; printf "%s\0%s\0", $0"/"f, $0"/"tolower(f)}' |
  xargs -r0n2 echo mv

(remove echo when happy).

Or if you can use zsh:

autoload zmv
zmv -n -wQ '**/*(D)' '$1${(L)2}'

(remove -n when happy)

answered Nov 29, 2013 at 21:19

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