From: jazz AT softway DOT com (Jason Zions)
Subject: Re: case sensitive directory names
4 Dec 1997 18:20:19 -0800
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To: Kevin Hughes <kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk>
Cc: "Gnuwin95 (E-mail)" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

It's not gnuwin that "remembers" the original case you typed - it's the
filesystem.

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.)

Jason
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