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Re: case sensitive directory names
- To: Jason Zions <jazz at softway dot com>
- Subject: Re: case sensitive directory names
- From: Guy Gascoigne - Piggford <ggp at informix dot com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 09:58:59 -0800
- Cc: <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- References: <01BD0098.CFFDAEE0@rodney.wg.icl.co.uk>
At 10:47 AM 12/4/97 -0700, you wrote:
>It's not gnuwin that "remembers" the original case you typed - it's the
>filesystem.
Whilst this may be true, what I see happening is that under bash (and not
under cmd.exe) if I cd to a directory with the name typed in lowercase,
certain other non-cygwin programs (clearcase) inherit this wrong pathname.
To me this means that he problem is separate from bash' intrenal concept of
what the CWD is.
>NTFS and FAT16 (under NT, anyway) are case-storing filesystems; Win32 is
>case-insensitive when looking at the stored filenames.
>
>Instead of using the bash built-in pwd, use /bin/pwd to get the "real"
>working directory in a case-consistent way. /bin/pwd walks the
>filesystem to find out where you are, while the bash built-in tracks it
>by assuming a starting point and watching the cd commands fly by. (If
>you cd through a symlink, I think you'll get wildly different answers
>from the builtin pwd and /bin/pwd; I don't know which is more useful to
>your scripts.)
Well, actually /bin/pwd prints out the same 'wrong case' version of the CWD
as bash does.
Guy
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