[mythtv] mythlink and case of filenames

[Torbjörn Jansson]

On 2021-03-24 21:20, Nigel Pearson wrote:
>> On 25 Mar 2021, at 4:12 am, Torbjörn Jansson <torbjorn at jansson.tech> wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> short question, is there a way to convince mythlink.pl to generate only lowercase symbolic links?
>>
>> reason for this question is that i have some bad guide data where they cant decide if a show should be uppercase in beginning of the name only or if each word should be upper case.
>> this creates multiple similar folders with only a difference in case and i don't like it
>>
> 
> 
> Something like this (untested) hack:
> 
> % diff mythlink.pl.orig mythlink.pl
> 27a28
>>      our ($tolower);
> 54a56
>>                 'tolower'                      => \$tolower,
> 225a228,233
>> --tolower
>>
>>      Replace any capital letters in the link name with lower case.
>>
>>      default:  Mixed case, as per recording name in the database or guide
>>      
> 385a394,397
>>      # Work around bad guide data?
>>          if ($tolower) {
>>              $name = lc($name)
>>          }
> 
> 
> should work?
> 
> 

Tested it and it looks like it works.
Thanks.