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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:35:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: dalewking AT insightbb DOT com
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Subject: Re: How to convert a path to the correct case
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, dalewking wrote:

> Cygwin itself is case preserving, but case insensitive. Other tools are
> not so flexible on case. In my case I have some issues with incorrect
> case and my makefile.
>
> Consider if I had a directory /foo/BAR. Cygwin will let you actually do
> "cd /Foo/bar" and work happily. Pwd will actually return "/Foo/bar"
> instead of the real path in this case.
>
> It would be really helpful to have a way given a string like "/Foo/bar"
> to convert that to the real correct case "/foo/BAR".
>
> But I'm having trouble finding an easy, convenient way to do that. As I
> said pwd doesn't do it nor does cygpath.
>
> One way that works is to turn the path into a pattern. You can do "ls
> /Foo/bar*" but that will return multiple strings if there is more than
> one file that starts with BAR. You can do "ls /Foo/ba[r]" but then how
> do I easily add the brackets into the string? I've tried various things
> with find, but none do the conversion.
>
> Anyone have a good idea how to do this conversion.

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>, and search for
check_case.  You want "check_case:adjust".  Don't let the warning scare
you off... :-D

Alternatively, if you *are* scared off by the warning, you could do

ls -1 /Foo/bar* | head

HTH,
	Igor
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