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Number   :  9145
Date     :  2004-11-05
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: lower case copy
Size(KB) :  0



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Garry Deane"  wrote:
> 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


I forgot about those pesky filenames with spaces. You'll
need to change the SED expression to enclose the filenames
with quotes so that xxcopy will exclude them. This will do it.

dir . /a-d/b | sed -n 's/.*[A-Z].*/"&"/p' > \xxcopy.xcl

Garry



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