Re: insensitive case problem in latest cygwin

[Jason Taylor <jasonmt at gmail dot com>]

Funny.  I've routinely used cygwin to rename the files from my digital
camera before uploading them just using a mv command.  I'm on a NTFS
file system under both Windows 2000 and Win XP and, before this latest
version of cygwin the mv worked fine.  (obviously the problem isn't
limited to mv)

Now I get:

jasont@jasont-laptop ~
$ touch AAA

jasont@jasont-laptop ~
$ mv AAA aaa
mv: `AAA' and `aaa' are the same file

jasont@jasont-laptop ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 jasont-laptop 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686
unknown unknown Cygwin
.....

Since it sounds like it is uncommon to have filenames that are case
sensitive under cygwin I'll just assume it won't work and script
around it.

Thanks,
  Jason


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:45:04 -0500 (EST), Igor Pechtchanski
<pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Jason Taylor wrote:
> 
> > windows xp
> > The current version of cygwin seems to ignore case in the filesystem.
> > if you open a cygwin bash shell and type
> >
> > touch AAA
> > mv AAA aaa
> >
> > it says that 'AAA' and 'aaa' are the same filename and doesn't change
> > the filename.
> 
> That's the behavior I've gotten for as long as I can remember, which
> prompted me to write this useful script:
> ------------------- BEGIN /usr/local/bin/mvv -------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> /bin/mv "${1%%/}" "${1%%/}-$$" && mv "${1%%/}-$$" "${2%%/}"
> -------------------- END /usr/local/bin/mvv --------------------
> 
> > When I run cygwin setup and go back to the 'prev' version the mv
> > command changes the name of the file like it has in previous versions.
> 
> Very strange.  What version was the 'prev' version?
> 
> > Sorry I can't get version numbers right now but it's Valentine's day.
> >  - jason
> 
> Oh, and neither 'uname -a' nor 'cygcheck -svr' run on Valentine's day?
> Why, that's just MEAN! :-)
>        Igor
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