URL:
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Summary: mv should be able to change filename case on
case-insensitive file systems
Project: GNU Core Utilities
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Tuesday 08/14/2007 at 16:29 UTC
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
On Cygwin using non-managed mounts (and presumably other operating systems
when using a case-insensitive file system), it's not possible to use Coreutils
mv to change the case of a filename; mv reports that they are the same file.
The underlying Cygwin rename() function does support this functionality.
Also see the thread on the Cygwin mailing list starting at
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00335.html>.
Example:
$ touch foo
$ mv foo Foo
mv: `foo' and `Foo' are the same file
$ mv --version
mv (GNU coreutils) 6.9
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Mike Parker, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 jonathan-lmi 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin
$ perl -e 'rename "foo", "Foo" or die($!)'
$ ls [Ff]oo
Foo
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