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Shell Script For UNIX - Recursively Convert Uppercase to Lowercase

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:13:14 +0000

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.

New Utility - SPKiller

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:52:19 +0000

SPKiller (Service and Process Killer) is a windows service that sits quietly on a timer thread in the background, stopping and killing any service and/or process that you specify in the SPKPreferences.xml file every n milliseconds. Very handy for things you just can’t seem to get rid of - AdobeUpdater, GoogleToolbarNotifier, AppleMobileDeviceService, etc, etc.

Download, extract, view the ReadMe.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

***note***
The SPKPreferences.xml is preconfigured with several services and processes that can prove to be performance drains, or just annoying in general. Modify this file to suit your needs.
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DOWNLOAD SPKiller beta

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admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:06:41 +0000

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