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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, James Miller wrote:

> I've run across a problem that a bash script might resolve. But my bash 
> skills are
> rudimentary at best. I'd therefore like to ask for help with this project. 
> I've
> downloaded a grouping of html files I want to have resident on my home 
> computer. The
> files are linked together in series and link one to another from within each 
> html file
> as well as from some centralized index pages. The problem is that this 
> grouping of
> files was created by some (not too bright) M$ user who paid little or no 
> attention to
> case sensitivity. Sometimes file names are in lower case, sometimes in upper 
> case
> (mostly upper case). The problem, as should be clear, is that the links don't 
> work on
> a Linux system if the case is not properly specified in the hyperlink. What I
> therefore need to do is convert the relevant file names, whether under their 
> resident
> directory, or within the html files themselves, to either upper or lower 
> case. It

You would probably use tr a-z A-Z but I can't figure out how to do 
anything except echo filename | tr a-z A-Z to display FILENAME.

How might I write a script that asks someone to type in their login name 
and replaces another string with that in a file?  My local bbs still has 
no spam filter and I offered mine for general use but people don't know 
how to edit.  So it should also write my filter to their home directory 
after replacing my login with theirs.  They know how to type their login. 
The script should work in bash.  Anyone who changed their shell knows how 
to edit already.  The staff member who was working on this for a few 
months quit due to other staff members with nasty tempers.

I have a .procmailrc which invokes spamc.  The script could also offer 
them a choice of whether to dump spam or save it to a spam folder.  I am 
going to dump anything with 3 spamassassin points rather than default 5.

I asked for help at the bbs and a couple of nasty staff and board members 
keep telling me nobody uses pine mutt or mailx and to use gmail instead.