From:	Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr (Pierre A. Humblet)
Subject:	Re: Case sensitivity in filenames
23 Dec 1998 17:32:28 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<3.0.5.32.19981223140019.008a5280.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ne.mediaone.net>
References:	Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr (Pierre A. Humblet)
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To:	"Moore, Paul" <Paul DOT Moore AT uk DOT origin-it DOT com>,
	"'Gnu Win32'" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

At 10:46 AM 12/23/98 -0000, Moore, Paul wrote:
>Hi,
>I can't believe that this isn't a FAQ, but I've looked and can't find
>it. I've just installed cygwin B20.1, and it appears that the commands
>are treating files case-sensitively. In particular, if I do (from
>COMMAND.COM) "ls *.zip" I get a list of zip files in the current
>directory. But if I do "ls *.ZIP" I get nothing! Now, I understand that
>Unix filenames are case sensitive, but Windows ones aren't and so I
>would expect the command to produce the same results in both cases (or
>at least for there to be an option to make this happen). But it appears
>not...
>
>Can anybody suggest what I'm missing? My CYGWIN environment variable is
>not set at all. Should I set something in it? The documentation doesn't
>show anything which looks relevant.
>
>Thanks,
>Paul Moore
>
In bash:
shopt -s nocaseglob

No idea how to make something like that work from COMMAND.COM

Pierre

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