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RE: case sensitive directory names
- To: "'Jason Zions'" <jazz at softway dot com>
- Subject: RE: case sensitive directory names
- From: Kevin Hughes <kh at wg dot icl dot co dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 08:05:12 -0000
- Cc: "Gnuwin95 (E-mail)" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Zions [SMTP:jazz@softway.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 1997 5:47 PM
To: Kevin Hughes
Cc: Gnuwin95 (E-mail)
Subject: Re: case sensitive directory names
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
Jason,
Thanks for the suggestion but you have left me confused.
The only pwd I know about is the pwd in the bash shell which I thought was the same as the pwd.exe in
/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin. There is no /bin/pwd
I tried calling the /gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/pwd directly and get exactly the same results as doing pwd
What is the /bin/pwd you are refering to
Kevin
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