Subject: Q: Case sensitive file names (B17)
From: [email-masked] (Barry Roberts)

13 Dec 1996 15:07:06 -0800
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It seems that the cygnus file and shell utilities are case sensitive when
performing wildcard expansion, and aren't for an explicit file name.

For example, ls *.cpp will not show HELLO.CPP, but ls hello.cpp will
show it (as lower case).

For the utilities I have tried (grep, ls, cat), this seems to be true whether
run from cmd or bash.

Is there a way that I can turn off this case sensitivity?  It makes many of
the utilities MUCH less useful on FAT/NTFS/HPFS partitions which
preserve but ignore case.

Thanks,
Barry Roberts

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