On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Daniel Jarboe wrote:
>
>> Oh, sorry. Some unix versions have an lcase comand. If not, write your
>> own:
>>
>> sed y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/
>>
>> tr A-Z a-z
>
> OK, I tried it with two "sed -e" commands and "sed | tr". The first was a
> bit faster (like a few hundredths out of half a second or so) but (to me at
> least) the second was way clearer. Here's what I settled on:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> while read line ; do
> case "z$line" in
> z) ;;
> z/*) firstcharlc="$(echo "$line" | sed 's@^.*/mp3/\(.\).*$@\1@' | tr
> A-Z a-z)"
> sed "s@^\\(.*/mp3/\\)\\(.*\\)\$@\\1$firstcharlc/\\2@" ;;
> *) echo "${line#z}"
> esac
> done < "$1"
Scratch that, it only works for spherical cows in a vacuum^W^W^W^Wbands
starting with "A". Obviously I have more work to do.
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