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A relative of mine compiled an extensive (~3,000 files) network of
genealogical Web pages. The problem is: he built all of this on a Windows
machine and made /many/ uppercase-lowercase inconsistencies. Due to the
large bulk of files, changing this by hand would be very impractical.

Is there a way I could graft the files onto a Linux server and get them to
work properly? Are there special settings/options for the server (maybe
..htaccess)? Are there tools that scan the files and convert them in some
way (also within) to make them all lower- or upper-case?

I would greatly appreciate your help on this.

Roy

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Is there a way I could graft the files onto a Linux server and get them
> to work properly?

Assuming an Apache server, try mod_speling (sic).

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Toby Inkster wrote:

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Is there a way I could graft the files onto a Linux server and get them
>> to work properly?
>
> Assuming an Apache server, try mod_speling (sic).

As I am not the sysadmin of that Web server, I don't know if this can
provide a solution. I looked up your good suggestion and found that the
CheckSpelling directive needs to be changed -- something which I cannot do
myself. Perhaps I am missing something...

Is there a script that renames all directories and files to pure lowercase
and then changes all links in the files appropriately?

Roy

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On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:50:36 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
<> wrote:

> Toby Inkster wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Assuming an Apache server, try mod_speling (sic).
> CheckSpelling directive needs to be changed -- something which I cannot
> do myself. Perhaps I am missing something...
nope, that's ok. Toby assumed you had sufficient privileges to do it.

> Is there a script that renames all directories and files to pure
> lowercase and then changes all links in the files appropriately?

That's pretty basic so I doubt there's a script for it. To rename the
files to lowercase (in bash):
for $fn in `find -name '*.html' | sort -r`; do mv $fn `echo $fn | tr
[:upper:] [:lower:]`; done

I sort the files in reverse order before processing here so ./Foo/Bar gets
renamed before the folder Foo becomes foo and ./Foo/Bar starts pointing
nowhere.

To do the magic inside the files:
perl -p -i -e 's/(href=".*?")/\L$1/' `find -name '*.html'`

Disclaimer: tested VERY briefly, but should work.
Feel free to ask if you need any modifications/explanations.

Mitja

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:13:56 +0100, Mitja wrote:

> Disclaimer: tested VERY briefly, but should work.

Meaning: MAKE A BACKUP OF EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU RUN THE SCRIPT. Allrighty...

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Mitja wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <> wrote:
>
>> Is there a script that renames all directories and files to pure
>> lowercase and then changes all links in the files appropriately?
>
> That's pretty basic so I doubt there's a script for it. To rename the
> files to lowercase (in bash):
> for $fn in `find -name '*.html' | sort -r`; do mv $fn `echo $fn | tr
> [:upper:] [:lower:]`; done

But that doesn't update the links. For that you'll probably want to do a
bit of Perl regexp stuff.

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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> As I am not the sysadmin of that Web server,

So give the sysadmin some beer and get him to do it for you. This *always*
works.

> I don't know if this can provide a solution. I looked up your good
> suggestion and found that the CheckSpelling directive needs to be
> changed -- something which I cannot do myself.

Not even in an .htaccess file?

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Toby Inkster wrote:
> Mitja wrote:
>
>>Roy Schestowitz <> wrote:
>>
>>>Is there a script that renames all directories and files to pure
>>>lowercase and then changes all links in the files appropriately?
>>
>>That's pretty basic so I doubt there's a script for it. To rename the
>>files to lowercase (in bash):
>>for $fn in `find -name '*.html' | sort -r`; do mv $fn `echo $fn | tr
>>[:upper:] [:lower:]`; done
>
> But that doesn't update the links. For that you'll probably want to do a
> bit of Perl regexp stuff.

Are you sure you read Mitja's whole post?

> To do the magic inside the files:
> perl -p -i -e 's/(href=".*?")/\L$1/' `find -name '*.html'`

Leif K-Brooks wrote:

> Are you sure you read Mitja's w

Whole posts are so old fashioned.

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Mitja wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:50:36 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
> <> wrote:
>
>> Toby Inkster wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Assuming an Apache server, try mod_speling (sic).
>> CheckSpelling directive needs to be changed -- something which I cannot
>> do myself. Perhaps I am missing something...
> nope, that's ok. Toby assumed you had sufficient privileges to do it.
>
>> Is there a script that renames all directories and files to pure
>> lowercase and then changes all links in the files appropriately?
>
> That's pretty basic so I doubt there's a script for it. To rename the
> files to lowercase (in bash):
> for $fn in `find -name '*.html' | sort -r`; do mv $fn `echo $fn | tr
> [:upper:] [:lower:]`; done
>
> I sort the files in reverse order before processing here so ./Foo/Bar gets
> renamed before the folder Foo becomes foo and ./Foo/Bar starts pointing
> nowhere.
>
> To do the magic inside the files:
> perl -p -i -e 's/(href=".*?")/\L$1/' `find -name '*.html'`
>
> Disclaimer: tested VERY briefly, but should work.
> Feel free to ask if you need any modifications/explanations.
>
> Mitja

I found some other solution in the mean time. It is very similar and I am
writing about it at the moment:

http://www.schestowitz.com/Software/Lowercase/

Roy