Re: Ken's grep question about renaming files to lowercase

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2003

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texte = Ken,Can't you have webdna do this not on the fly but by replacing files recursively using writefiles?i agree that on the fly is problematic.BillKenneth Grome wrote:> To: (WebDNA Talk)> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 01:18:14 +0800> From: Kenneth Grome > Subject: Re: Ken's grep question about renaming files to lowercase> >> Ken,>> >> Speaking of unanswered questions, I think I have a partial solution >> to grepping your file names, however, I think you'd have to use an >> Applescript to do this in BBEdit because grep alone can't perform a >> change case function easily to a matched string. If anyone else >> knows otherwise, please let me know. This is the logic (working >> syntax will vary) for how I'd approach it in WebDNA:>> >> 1. Match a filename using a regular expression such as >> ([0-9A-Za-z]+)\.(tpl|htm|html|dna|gif|jpg|png) You could turn off >> case sensitivity in WebDNA 5.0 so you wouldn't need to consider >> permutations of lower/uppercase characters. This assumes all file >> names are alphabetical or numerical characters only.>> 2. Replace it with the [lowercase]\1\.\2[/lowercase] of the match. >> You could do the same thing in Applescript, I just don't recall if >> there's a lowercase function as part of the default OSAX or if you >> need a special OSAX to do it. If you're using UNIX, you could use a >> shell script which may be easier to program for recursion, but I >> don't know how you'd lowercase the matching pattern in the shell. >> There's a tr command, but I'm not sure how to get it to operate on >> just the matching characters. Frankly I'd like to see a WebDNA >> solution to this because it has all of the components necessary >> except for easy file recursion.>> Bill> > > > Hi Bill,> > I use BBEdit all the time to change text strings in all the files of a > selected folder, but I never use BBEdit's grep so do this, instead I > do it by entering the text into the "search for" and "replace with" > fields. This works fine for one or a few changes, and it *does* > replace uppercase with lowercase if that's the only change I want to > make ... but it would be crazy to do this for every different file > reference in the entire web site hierarchy.> > I would also like to 'really' change the file names to lowercase > instead of making webdna do this 'on-the-fly' via your regular > expressions solution above. I can see how your solution will work, > but it seems like it will make webdna do a lot of extra processing > that would not be necessary if only the cases of the letters were > really changed in my templates, instead of just wrapping them all in > lowercase contexts.> > I'm not using UNIX nor am I using webdna 5.x so I cannot 'turn off' > case sensitivity as you suggested above.> > If anyone else knows a way to fix my templates please let me know. In > the meantime I will work on a potential solution that I just conceived > of myself which *may* be able to do it entirely in webdna ...> > --> > Sincerely,> Kenneth Grome> -------------------------------------------------------------> Outsource your WebDNA programming for $18 an hour or less!> -------------------------------------------------------------> > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Ken's grep question about renaming files to lowercase ( Kenneth Grome 2003)
Re: Ken's grep question about renaming files to lowercase ( William DeVaul 2003)
Re: Ken's grep question about renaming files to lowercase ( Alex McCombie 2003)
Re: Ken's grep question about renaming files to lowercase ( Kenneth Grome 2003)
Re: Ken's grep question about renaming files to lowercase ( devaulw@onebox.com 2003)

Ken,Can't you have webdna do this not on the fly but by replacing files recursively using writefiles?i agree that on the fly is problematic.BillKenneth Grome wrote:> To: (WebDNA Talk)> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 01:18:14 +0800> From: Kenneth Grome > Subject: Re: Ken's grep question about renaming files to lowercase> >> Ken,>> >> Speaking of unanswered questions, I think I have a partial solution >> to grepping your file names, however, I think you'd have to use an >> Applescript to do this in BBEdit because grep alone can't perform a >> change case function easily to a matched string. If anyone else >> knows otherwise, please let me know. This is the logic (working >> syntax will vary) for how I'd approach it in WebDNA:>> >> 1. Match a filename using a regular expression such as >> ([0-9A-Za-z]+)\.(tpl|htm|html|dna|gif|jpg|png) You could turn off >> case sensitivity in WebDNA 5.0 so you wouldn't need to consider >> permutations of lower/uppercase characters. This assumes all file >> names are alphabetical or numerical characters only.>> 2. Replace it with the [lowercase]\1\.\2[/lowercase] of the match. >> You could do the same thing in Applescript, I just don't recall if >> there's a lowercase function as part of the default OSAX or if you >> need a special OSAX to do it. If you're using UNIX, you could use a >> shell script which may be easier to program for recursion, but I >> don't know how you'd lowercase the matching pattern in the shell. >> There's a tr command, but I'm not sure how to get it to operate on >> just the matching characters. Frankly I'd like to see a WebDNA >> solution to this because it has all of the components necessary >> except for easy file recursion.>> Bill> > > > Hi Bill,> > I use BBEdit all the time to change text strings in all the files of a > selected folder, but I never use BBEdit's grep so do this, instead I > do it by entering the text into the "search for" and "replace with" > fields. This works fine for one or a few changes, and it *does* > replace uppercase with lowercase if that's the only change I want to > make ... but it would be crazy to do this for every different file > reference in the entire web site hierarchy.> > I would also like to 'really' change the file names to lowercase > instead of making webdna do this 'on-the-fly' via your regular > expressions solution above. I can see how your solution will work, > but it seems like it will make webdna do a lot of extra processing > that would not be necessary if only the cases of the letters were > really changed in my templates, instead of just wrapping them all in > lowercase contexts.> > I'm not using UNIX nor am I using webdna 5.x so I cannot 'turn off' > case sensitivity as you suggested above.> > If anyone else knows a way to fix my templates please let me know. In > the meantime I will work on a potential solution that I just conceived > of myself which *may* be able to do it entirely in webdna ...> > --> > Sincerely,> Kenneth Grome> -------------------------------------------------------------> Outsource your WebDNA programming for $18 an hour or less!> -------------------------------------------------------------> > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ William DeVaul

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