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Number   :  9143
Date     :  2004-11-05
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: lower case copy
Size(KB) :  1



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "elfen69"  wrote:
> 
> i need to copy only a group of files existing in lower case.
> the ncl and ncu switches seem to control the case of the output
> files. is there a switch that controls the input case and only
> acts upon them. thanks in advance ...

John's right that xxcopy doesn't include a case sensitive
selection switch. However you can use a utility like SED
http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/index.htm
to find the uppercase filenames and create an exclusion
list of these files for xxcopy. Something like:

pushd c:\source
dir . /a-d/b | sed -n /[A-Z]/p > \xxcopy.xcl
xxcopy . /L/ex:\xxcopy.xcl

Note that this only works with a single directory. You
could modify it to handle subdirectories but only if your
subdirectory names are lower case. If you subdirectory names
might have uppercase characters, you'll need to use something
like a FOR command to walk the directory tree processing each
directory one at a time or processing the xxcopy.xcl file
to weed out file paths that are uppercase but with lower
case file names. Quite do-able but a bit complicated.

Garry



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