Re: No differences between upper and lower case in file
Re: No differences between upper and lower case in file
- Subject: Re: No differences between upper and lower case in file
- From: Thierry Garnier <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:39:21 +0100
Thanks for all the answers but an other point on the same problem I
forgot to expose and which is for me
more confusing is the system behaviour with commands like ls.
For example:
orion:~ tgarnier$ ls -ld FoO/
ls: FoO/: No such file or directory
orion:~ tgarnier$ mkdir FoO
orion:~ tgarnier$ ls -ld FoO/
drwxrwxr-x 2 tgarnier Lgmb 68 26 Jan 11:25 FoO/
orion:~ tgarnier$ ls -ld Foo
drwxrwxr-x 2 tgarnier Lgmb 68 26 Jan 11:25 Foo
orion:~ tgarnier$ ls -ld FOO
drwxrwxr-x 2 tgarnier Lgmb 68 26 Jan 11:25 FOO
That mean for the "system" (or everything ) no differences are made between
FOO, FoO, Foo and so on.
I am not convainced, it is "case preserving"
Thierry
It's not the Mac OS that is case insensitive, it's the disk format and
the file system. Both HFS and HFS+ are what is known as "case
insensitive, case preserving". That is, "TMP" and "tmp" are the same
file. Once you have one, you cannot create the other without destroying
the first.
The "case preserving" part means that the file system will remember what
name was used to create the file. That way "My Document" remains "My
Document" and doesn't become "MY DOCUMENT" or "mY doCUMenT" when
presented in the Finder or other interface.
Mac OS X supports other disk formats such as UFS, which is truly case
sensitive.
-Sean
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