How can I change all characters in link addresses (or only btwnhttp:// and .html) <b>within<b> all files in selected folder(s) into lower case? Maybe a batch file or regex string. I have utilities in Windows such utilities Multi Commander, GrepWin, etc.

Freerepublic.com ^ | Thu, 12/02/21 | daniel1212

[daniel1212]

"But since html and http are (usually/conventionally) lower case, you could just go through the files and convert them all to lower case."

Again, I can find all the links, but looking for and changing maybe hundreds one by one takes a lot of time.

[Woodman]

A pretty simple PERL script would do this as well.

[BiglyCommentary]

What’s your time frame for getting this done?

[Woodman]

PERL example:

# create a perl string
$a = ‘FOO BAR’;

# convert the string to lowercase
$b = lc $a;

# print it
print $b;

[daniel1212]

"Yes, here it is, plain as day:"

Wow. That is good. That I get my error (even after doing a dns flush) is bad. And I just tried certain pages on a Linux PC here and I get the same error. Mind checking some in here: http://peacebyjesus.net/new_testament_toc.html

[Pollard]

https://convertcase.net/

[daniel1212]

"Windows Powershell (built into Windows 7 and newer) can handle this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3822745/rename-files-to-lowercase-in-powershell Use -Recurse if you want to change filenames in subfolders too. "gci" is the PowerShell abbreviation for Get-ChildItem gci -Recurse | ? { $_.Name -cne $_.Name.ToLower() } | % { ren $_.Name -NewName $_.Name.Tolower() }"

Thanks. I will try to do it in a new folder. How do you direct it to just the correct directory? I do have a (customized) right click option on my folders to Open command prompt here but that is not the Power Shell for it is the Admin command prompt.

[daniel1212]

"What’s your time frame for getting this done?"

Well ASAP. It should not take long once and if the scripting is correct.

[daniel1212]

PERL example:

# create a perl string
$a = ‘FOO BAR’;

# convert the string to lowercase
$b = lc $a;

# print it
print $b;

I have no idea what that tells me to do, sorry.

[Repeal The 17th]

Works just fine...
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[GingisK]

Copy those links into a text file, and then process that into a .bat file that renames the files. Save it, then execute it. You can find sed and gawk that run on windows. One place to get those unix utilities that run on windows is inside the WinAVR compiler distribution. (Not the Microchip distribution)
Instructions for using sed and gawk are easily available, but somewhat cryptic. I still use them from time to time. Work with copies of files; otherwise, you will mangle them until you hit paydirt with the scripts.

[GingisK]

Oh, lookie there!

[daniel1212]

"https://convertcase.net/"

Well thanks, but that is only going to change text I put in it, which means finding and coping and pasting and changing and putting the the words back into there place within files one by one, vs. batch changing the case of text within a line within 800 files.

[ShadowAce]

sed 's/[A-Z]/\L&/g'

The above is the command to change text to lower case.

[bankwalker]

link worked fine for me ...

[BiglyCommentary]

Here’s your framework. You want to do this in two passes.

First pass - change all the html file names to lower case.
Second pass - Change all references to those files within the html files to lower case to match.

You go to the root where the files exist.

#pass 1
find . -name “*.html” -exec (file names to lower case rename script) {} \;

#pass 2
find . -name “*.html” -exec (file edit to lower case script) {} \;

So the () above just needs to be filled in.

Any you always copy your root to a test area before you let the about rip.

[Woodman]

Sorry was thinking to technical. What I was saying is a simple Perl script will take text and rewrite it all in lower case (or upper case). With a few more lines of code can be made to search within text and convert as well. PERL is a scripting language written mainly to manipulate files and text although it can do much more. I’m just a very basic user of PERL, not really a programmer. However all the languages I know have a basic to upper or to lower command. Some are easier to use than others. HTML is really just a text file and can be manipulated as such.

[Pollard]

Ask on a linux forum or a linux specific https://unix.stackexchange.com/.

You’re mostly asking people who can’t even do html as evidenced by three separate FR threads where someone learned to post an image or you’re dealing with people who used to be techies a decade or two ago or are in some obscure tech field.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/

Someone there will answer and a bunch of other people will vote and then you take the highest voted answer. The answer will likely give you the regex/code you need.

askubuntu is another place. Those two will get you an answer for most anything Linux and many servers run Ubuntu Server.

[BiglyCommentary]

In pass 2 you can exec sed with a regex to match on a html file name within the text and change the case.

[bhl]

Again, I would try the spell check apache module. You might not need to do anything if you install it.