X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,PLING_QUERY,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: File Name Case Sensitivity & Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual? Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 00:45:37 +0200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <4DDE9BE5.90105@veritech.com> <20110526193553.GB6015@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4DDEB0BA.9030903@veritech.com> <20110527052926.GE28752@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DDFC8EC.8060507@veritech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com * Edward McGuire (Fri, 27 May 2011 16:36:06 -0500) > The globbing is not where the confusion lies. This globbing: > > $ ls xwin* > ls: cannot access xwin*: No such file or directory > > works as expected and did not confuse anybody. Lee begs to differ: "Globbing is case sensitive [while ...]. And, you may never have been confused by that, but I maintain it's very confusing." > Here's what confused > the OP: > > $ ls xwin > xwin > $ ls xwIN > xwIN Interesting that you know that this is what confused Lee - although he doesn't mention it all in his transcript (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/126959). Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple