Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
- Subject: Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm
- From: Dima Brodsky <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 18:03:46 -0800
Are you using HFS+? If so, I believe that names in this
file system are case insensitive. Does anybody know how
to turn case sensitivity on?
ttyl
Dima
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 08:46:41PM -0500, Rick Prest wrote:
> Can anyone out there tell me how I can make filenames case-sensitive?
>
> This is not really X11 since this happens in Terminal.app too. I am
> completely flabbergasted. I have used OSX for a long time and never
> noticed this odd behaviour before. Did I change something or did OSX
> change? I am using 10.2.4.
>
> localhost 11> ls
> NewFolder/
>
> localhost 12> mkdir newfolder
> mkdir: newfolder: File exists
>
> I can even cd to 'newfolder' and still get to 'NewFolder'. Wow! I must
> have been asleep.
>
> If there is a better place to ask this, I would be happy to oblige.
>
> Rick Prest
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