Re: change from upper to lower case
Re: change from upper to lower case
- Subject: Re: change from upper to lower case
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:33:19 +0000
On 19 Dec 2003, at 2.43 pm, Buttery, Ian wrote:
Does anyone know of a script to change a folder of 400 files from
upper case to lower case, for example
There's one provided with OS X, called 'Change Case of Item Names', and
it works on the contents of the front Finder window. It's in the
'Scripts' folder in the main Library folder (look in the 'Finder
Scripts' subdirectory). If you have installed Script Menu, you can run
it from there, or you can open the file and run it from a script
editor. Works fine as long as item names don't contain accented letters
(see my other recent post: 'Accented Characters in Finder Names').
I've revised the script, trimming down unwieldy variable names and
over-verbose syntax, adding a raft of accented characters, and
performing the string coercion required. I'll send it to you offlist if
you want - it'll just get scrambled if I post it here.
It's not necessarily an example of good scripting practice, even though
it's based on an 'Apple-certified' script. The case-changing routine
relies heavily on the 'offset of' command, which more experienced
scripters than I have suggested is not overly efficient or
sophisticated.
I just tried the script on a folder with 136 items in it, mostly URL
files, some with long, complex names containing slashes and allsorts.
Took about 10 seconds, which is not wonderful, but not unfeasible if
you don't need to do this sort of thing every five minutes.
HTH
Nick
pp Mr Tea
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