From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2009-12-15T06:09:57+09:00
Subject: Re: one-liner for lowercasing files

w_a_x_man wrote:
> On Dec 14, 12:04�pm, Peter Bailey <pbai...@bna.com> wrote:
>> Still no good. Here's what I get:
>>
>> >ruby -e 'Dir.glob("*.*").each { |fn| File.rename(fn, fn.downcase) }'
>>
>> 'fn' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>> operable program or batch file.
>>
>> E:\Asura-Non\BWDhelp\temp>
> 
> Do not top-post.
> 
> Since you are using the windoze shell, you must learn some things
> about the windoze shell.  Does that make sense?
> 
> In this case, the Ruby code must be enclosed in double quotes.
> Try this.
> 
> ruby -e "Dir['*'].each{|fn| p fn.downcase }"

Here's what worked. Yours worked, waxman, but I needed a real filename 
conversion, not just a print of it.
Thank you all for your help! This is great, simple stuff.

>ruby -e "Dir.glob('*').each{|fn| File.rename(fn, fn.downcase) }"
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