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Shlomi Fish
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:29:48 +0100
From: Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com>
To: Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org>
Subject: Re: [Prior Art Hunt] Modules To Search for Directory Entries That Vary
Only in Case (Uppercase/Lowercase)
Hi Shlomi,
> I want to write a set of CPAN distributions to recursively search for
> directory entries that vary only in case (e.g: "hello.txt" and "Hello.txt")
> for better compatibility with case-insensitive systems and file systems (e.g:
> NTFS, HFS+), but I'm wondering if such beasts already exist. Some Google and
> MetaCPAN searches yielded nothing, but maybe I'm missing something.
>
> Does anyone know of any prior art?
Couldn’t find any CPAN modules (doesn’t mean there aren’t any :-), but I did
come across this, which you probably found too:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2109056/how-to-find-duplicate-files-with-same-name-but-in-different-case-that-exist-in-s
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2109056/how-to-find-duplicate-files-with-same-name-but-in-different-case-that-exist-in-s>
It has perl code in the solution :-)
The search that found that came up with that found other threads along the same
lines.
Cheers,
Neil
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Hi Shlomi,
Couldn’t find any CPAN modules (doesn’t mean there aren’t any :-), but I did come across this, which you probably found too: It has perl code in the solution :-) The search that found that came up with that found other threads along the same lines. Cheers, Neil |
