On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, dalewking wrote: > Cygwin itself is case preserving, but case insensitive. Other tools are > not so flexible on case. In my case I have some issues with incorrect > case and my makefile. > > Consider if I had a directory /foo/BAR. Cygwin will let you actually do > "cd /Foo/bar" and work happily. Pwd will actually return "/Foo/bar" > instead of the real path in this case. > > It would be really helpful to have a way given a string like "/Foo/bar" > to convert that to the real correct case "/foo/BAR". > > But I'm having trouble finding an easy, convenient way to do that. As I > said pwd doesn't do it nor does cygpath. > > One way that works is to turn the path into a pattern. You can do "ls > /Foo/bar*" but that will return multiple strings if there is more than > one file that starts with BAR. You can do "ls /Foo/ba[r]" but then how > do I easily add the brackets into the string? I've tried various things > with find, but none do the conversion. > > Anyone have a good idea how to do this conversion.
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>, and search for check_case. You want "check_case:adjust". Don't let the warning scare you off... :-D Alternatively, if you *are* scared off by the warning, you could do ls -1 /Foo/bar* | head HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
