I have about 600 files in a folder that I need to convert form lower case to upper case. I cannot install any apps in my machine since our IT won't allow it, hence, I either have to do it in powershell, CMD or maybe VB.
Powershell: how to convert files in a folder from upper case to lower case
[1] Caveat: When you use Get-ChildItem or Get-Item to report a specific directory or file by its literal name, whatever case variation you specify is reported back, even though the true case variation as stored in the filesystem may differ (File Explorer, by contrast, always shows you the true case). To see the true case, useGet-ChildItem -Filter or, as a quick workaround that may show additional items, however, append * to the name/path. In both cases, the name is treated as a wildcard pattern, and the result of the matching process reflects the true case.
The Windows file system supports setting case sensitivity with attribute flags per directory. While the standard behavior is to be case-insensitive, you can assign an attribute flag to make a directory case sensitive, so that it will recognize Linux files and folders that may differ only by case.
This may be especially true when mounting drives to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) file system. When working in the WSL file system, you are running Linux, thus files and directories are treated as case-sensitive by default.
In the past, if you had files whose name differed only by case, these files could not be accessed by Windows, because Windows applications treat the file system as case insensitive and cannot distinguish between files whose names only differ in case. While Windows File Explorer will show both files, only one will open regardless of which you select.
Support for per-directory case sensitivity began in Windows 10, build 17107. In Windows 10, build 17692, support was updated to include inspecting and modifying the case sensitivity flag for a directory from inside WSL. Case sensitivity is exposed using an extended attribute named system.wsl_case_sensitive. The value of this attribute will be 0 for case insensitive directories, and 1 for case sensitive directories.
A directory must be empty in order to change the case sensitivity flag attribute on that directory. You cannot disable the case sensitivity flag on a directory containing folders/files whose names differ on only by case.
To mount a drive (which uses the DrvFs filesystem plugin to make the disk available under /mnt, such as /mnt/c, /mnt/d, etc) with a specific case sensitivity setting for ALL drives, use /etc/wsl.conf as described above. To set the default mount options for one specific drive, use the /etc/fstab file to specify these options.For more WSL configuration options, see Configure per distro launch settings with wslconf.
The Git version control system also has a configuration setting that can be used to adjust case sensitivity for the files you are working with. If you are using Git, you may want to adjust the git config core.ignorecase setting.
To use Windows file system tools to work on a Linux directory that contains mixed case files, you will need to create a brand new directory and set it to be case-sensitive, then copy the files into that directory (using git clone or untar). The files will remain mixed case. (Note that if you have already tried moving the files to a case-insensitive directory and there were conflicts, there were likely some files that were overwritten and will no longer be available.)
Ah, I see that. Yes does the same on my machine, folder name is Test, but if I cd TEST then it shows as TEST. Since folders and files on Windows are case insensitive it is going to the proper folder, so you should not have any issues.
Unlike in Unix/Linux where you can have two files called Test and test because it is case sensitive, Windows is case insensitive so you can only have one file in a folder called Test, as test and TEST will all be the same.
I found something like this to be ridiculously hard in powershell, renaming folders to uppercase. I ended up invoking cmd. You could put "write-host" in front of "cmd" to test out what strings would be run. This thread had the most "google juice" for this topic.
Back in the MS-DOS epoch, the value of the PATH variable used to be all upper case, at least when set using the PATH command.In order to use this feature on another string, you had to save the PATH to another temporary variable, then use the PATH command to save the string to be converted in the PATH variable, copy the value of the PATH variable back to the original variable, and restore the PATH variable.
Personally, I prefer using the string substitution feature of Windows' SET command, combined with delayed variable expansion.Besides conversion to upper case, this can be used just as easily to convert to lower case:
I just want to share you my journey, because we actually changed the Netbios domain name from lower- to uppercase in a production environment. We changed it without impact on the environment. The domain contained SQL servers / SQL clusters / Citrix servers / AIX servers / NAS & storage devices.
In the command, replace "OLD-FILE-NAME-PART" with the actual part of the name you want to replace. For instance, this command removes the word "trip" from the name of all files in the folder: ls Rename-Item -NewName $_.name -replace "-be",""
I have a situation where users have uploaded several files but without any naming convention. So some of the file names are in upper case while some are in lower case . So Now I have to build a script that can read the file name from document library and then change the format to following convention: First letter of the word must be in caps and remaining letters in lower case. For example, if a file name is "construction monthly reports" or "CONSTRUCTION MONTHLY REPORTS" then it should be renamed to following: "Construction Monthly Reports".
I tried following PowerShell script and it work well but some how it convert whole string from Upper to lower. i need to keep first letter of string as upper , do not want to cover as lower for first letter.
Capitalize renames all selected files and folders to lowercase, with only the first letter in each word uppercase. A word is defined as a string of characters preceded by space, dot or underscore.
The problem is FINDSTR does not collate the characters by their byte code value (commonly thought of as the ASCII code, but ASCII is only defined from 0x00 - 0x7F). Most regex implementations would treat [A-Z] as all upper case English capital letters. But FINDSTR uses a collation sequence that roughly corresponds to how SORT works. So [A-Z] includes the complete English alphabet, both upper and lower case (except for "a"), as well as non-English alpha characters with diacriticals.
FINDSTR /C:"granny Smith" Contacts.txtSearch every file in the current folder and all subfolders for the word "Smith", regardless of upper/lower case, note that /S will only search below the current directory:FINDSTR /s /i smith *.*
This mode is for renaming files in your computer system. Just add the files, choose the renaming rule of your choice, add the relevant text (except the Lowercase and Uppercase rules), select the right options and the file(s) will get named quickly.
This rule is designed to trim the name by the number of characters specified at the start/ end of the file/ folder name. In this case, we enter 2 in the Length textbox and select the At Start of Name radio box to opt for getting the first 2 characters (I and M) removed from the beginning of the name. Likewise, we enter 4 (to remove space, 6, 0 and 0) and select At End of Name to get the last 4 characters in the filename erased.
Looks good, but why wouldn't you just create a new Address policy that has lowercase letters in it, and it populates to everyone who follows the address policy _to/16489-e-mail-address-policy-for-lowercase-email-addresses-in-exchange-2010
Now you are ready to use the password, but there are still some issues that need to be considered. The problem is that every password will always have the characters at the same position in the string, even though every password would be random. In our example above this would mean: always five lower case letters, one upper case, one number and finally one special character. Potential hackers may recognize the patterns behind the passwords. This would make a brute force attack easier. Hence you should mix the characters of the password again.
It's okay to have some inconsistency in filenames if it can't otherwise beavoided. For example, sometimes tools that generate reference documentationproduce filenames based on different style requirements or based on the designand naming conventions of the product or API itself. In those cases, it's okayto make exceptions for those files.
But for some sequences from NCBI,e.g. >gi110645304refNC_002516.2 Pseudomona, the ID is NC_002516.2.In this case, we could set sequence ID parsing regular expression by global flag--id-regexp "\([^\]+)\ " or just use flag --id-ncbi. If you wantthe gi number, then use --id-regexp "^gi\([^\]+)\".
8.3 filenames are limited to at most eight characters (after any directory specifier), followed optionally by a filename extension consisting of a period . and at most three further characters. For systems that only support 8.3 filenames, excess characters are ignored. If a file name has no extension, a trailing . has no significance (that is, myfile and myfile. are equivalent). Furthermore, file and directory names are uppercase in this system, even though systems that use the 8.3 standard are usually case-insensitive (making CamelCap.tpu equivalent to the name CAMELCAP.TPU). However, on non-8.3 operating systems (such as almost any modern operating system) accessing 8.3 file systems (including DOS-formatted diskettes, but also including some modern memory cards and networked file systems), the underlying system may alter filenames internally to preserve case and avoid truncating letters in the names, for example in the case of VFAT. 2ff7e9595c
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