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The other day I needed to convert all folders, their subfolders, and all containing files from uppercase to lowercase on a UNIX machine.  I’m not as saavy with UNIX as I’d like to be, but after a little trial and error came up with a script that did what I needed it to do.   I couldnt find anything to do exactly what I needed online, so hopefully this will come in useful for somebody.

#!/bin/bash

if [ -n "$1" ]
then
if [ -d "$1" ]
then cd “$1″
else
echo Invalid Directory
exit
fi
fi

for x in `find . -type d`
do new=`echo $x | tr ‘[:upper:]‘ ‘[:lower:]‘`
mv $x $new
done

for x in `find . -type f`
do new=`echo $x | tr ‘[:upper:]‘ ‘[:lower:]‘`
mv $x $new
done

 Just put this in a file and run it with the path to your directory as the input parameter.