On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:20:48PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
>
>> Adding a _capital_ subdirectory is easy enough:
>>
>> :^\/s@/mp3/\(.\)@/mp3/\1/\1
>>
>> (assuming that doesn't do something disallowed in vim)
>>
>> But how do I make the subdirectory lower-case? Or is it easier to make a
>> capital soft link to each subdirectory, do that, then delete the link?
>
> I'm inclined to think you'd have to one of these for each letter of the
> alphabet.
Yes, that's correct. Big sites do it with home directories.
> Like:
>
> :%s/home\/mp3\/A/home\/mp3\/a\/A/g
>
> (Excuse me, as I'm not a whiz at Vim regexps). What you're doing is
> substituting
>
> home/mp3/A
>
> with
>
> home/mp3/a/A
Yes, in the case of Aphex_Twin and Abbot_+_Costello and all those "A"
groups. But for the rest, would I have to do something similar 26 times?
Or is there a regexp form that means "insert lowercase(#1) at #2"?
/home/eben/mp3/_/_...
2 1
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