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Re: Why does ls command sometimes case sensitively misbehave?


On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Geoffrey Scheller wrote:

> Why is ls doing this?  Other commands, like vi, also show
> this behavior:
>
>     $ touch foo
>
>     $ ls
>     foo
>
>     $ ls foo
>     foo
>
>     $ ls FoO
>     FoO
>
>     $ ls fo*
>     foo
>
>     $ ls Fo*
>     ls: Fo*: No such file or directory
>
> $ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(2)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
> Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Cygwin DLL version 1.3.12-2
>
> I run Cygwin on Windows XP Professional.
>
> Thanks,
> Geoffrey

What you're seeing is the behavior of the shell's filename globbing, not
of ls or vi.  What is the value of your CYGWIN environment variable?  Does
it contain "check_case:<smth>"?  Does it contain "glob" or "noglob"
(although that, IIRC, is only for command shell windows)?  What are the
options of bash itself (`set | grep SHELLOPTS`)?
	Igor
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