script to capitalize first letter of words, separated with full stop

[RabbieBurns]

Just wondering if someone could knock us up a simple script, bash, or perl, or python, or whatever is easiest..

basically just looking to try to change

this.is.the.filename.ext

to

This.Is.The.Filename.ext

Thanks in advance

[andy_b]

Not a script, but this may help - Renamer is quite useful for file renaming.

You can add a case rule to captialise every word which should do what you require.

[RabbieBurns]

sorry should have stipulated.. im not running windows.

[Arcath]

does the script need to look through a given directory? or will you just pass a filename to it?

is ruby allowed?

[RabbieBurns]

yeh preferably to traverse through a whole directory tree

Never used Ruby before, but I can install it no worries ...

[monkeyx]

Here is a pyhton script that I use where I use the string.title() function to do what you are asking for. It does also captize the extension, but sure you could work out how set the last 3 chars to lowercase

#!      /usr/bin/python
#       Copyright 2008 Thura <thurahlaing06@gmail.com>
#       Just a small script to rename files and folders in nautilus recursively
#       Tested under Ubuntu 8.04, should work fine with other Linux dist ...


import os,sys,string
dirs = []
def ren(path):
    oldname = os.path.split(path)[1]
    newname = oldname.title()

    print 'Renaming ' + oldname + ' to ' + newname;
      #Change this line for your preferred filename ...
    #For example, newname = oldname.lower()
    #             newname = "Your Prefix" + oldname <or>
    #             newname = oldname + "Your suffix"
    newpath = os.path.join(os.path.split(path)[0],newname)
    os.rename(path,newpath)
    if os.path.isdir(newpath):
        for name in os.listdir(newpath):
            ren(os.path.join(newpath,name))
for i in sys.argv[1:]:
    dirs.append(i)
for dir in dirs:
    ren(dir)

[RabbieBurns]

That works great, cheers.

Its no big deal about the last 3 chars I guess..

Thanks again

[RabbieBurns]

#!      /usr/bin/python
#       Copyright 2008 Thura <thurahlaing06@gmail.com>
#       Just a small script to rename files and folders in nautilus recursively
#       Tested under Ubuntu 8.04, should work fine with other Linux dist ...


import os,sys,string
dirs = []
def ren(path):
    oldname = os.path.split(path)[1]
    newname = oldname.title()

    temp = newname.split(".")
    temp[-1] = temp[-1].lower()
    newname = ".".join(temp)

    print 'Renaming ' + oldname + ' to ' + newname;
      #Change this line for your preferred filename ...
    #For example, newname = oldname.lower()
    #             newname = "Your Prefix" + oldname <or>
    #             newname = oldname + "Your suffix"
    newpath = os.path.join(os.path.split(path)[0],newname)
    os.rename(path,newpath)
    if os.path.isdir(newpath):
        for name in os.listdir(newpath):
            ren(os.path.join(newpath,name))
for i in sys.argv[1:]:
    dirs.append(i)
for dir in dirs:
    ren(dir)

Modified to lowecase the last word.. which works perfectly..

Thanks again.

[monkeyx]

Great News