From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-08-01T21:55:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Why aren't filenames being lowercased?

Florian Gross wrote:
>> Dir.chdir("L:/tiff/cdtiff/00000")
>>   Dir.glob("*.tif").each do |tiffile|
>      new_name = tiffile.downcase
>      File.rename(tiffile, new_name)
>      pdffile = File.basename(new_name, ".tif") + ".pdf"
>      puts "#{new_name}  #{pdffile}"
>> end
> 
> Basically, you were still using the old (outdated) name.
> 
>> gives me:
>> ...
>> va997.tif  va997.pdf
>> va998.tif  va998.pdf
>> WI679.TIF  WI679.TIF.pdf
>> WI680.TIF  WI680.TIF.pdf
>> WI681.TIF  WI681.TIF.pdf
> 
> I think your va* files were already in lowercase when the script was
> running.

Well, all of the filenames should be lower-cased, because of my 
"File.rename" in my script. And, like I said, all the files that show up 
upper-case are really lower-case as files.
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