Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:04:43 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: find tests (does not appear OS specific to me)
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> mkdir .cvs
> touch !.cvs
> touch .cvsignore
> find . -name '*cvs*'
> ./!.cvs
> find | grep cvs
> ./.cvs
> ./!.cvs
> ./.cvsignore
> 
> So, I see the same behavior on W95 as on Win2K.

And that behavior is expected.  See my other mail today about the
special handling of files whose name begin with a dot.

> Now, if I create a file/dir "CVS"
> find shows the file as all lower case on find without a name argument, ie
> ./cvs
> (-name '*CVS*' fails as expected).

Also expected: readdir by default downcases file names which are valid
8+3 file names.  If you want it to be more case-sensitive, set
FNCASE=y and try again.