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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:41:24 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Ronald Fischer wrote:

> Is there an easy way to rename a file foo to Foo?
>
> mv foo Foo
>
> complains that they are the same file. From the FAQ
> I learned that this is due to the limitations of
> Windows which does not distinguish between case
> in file names. The FAQ also says that there is a
> "highly experimental" case-sensitive file system
> available.
>
> Not being prepared yet to live in a highly
> experimental way, I'm curious whether there
> is a simpler solution to the rename problem
> aside from the obvious hack
>
>   mv foo bar; mv bar Foo

I use the following (which is essentially a wrapper around the hack):

$ cat /usr/local/bin/mvv
#!/bin/sh
/bin/mv "${1%%/}" "${1%%/}-$$" && mv "${1%%/}-$$" "${2%%/}"

HTH,
	Igor
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