From: jazz@softway.com (Jason Zions) Subject: Re: case sensitive directory names 4 Dec 1997 18:20:19 -0800 Message-ID: <3486ECB1.5C616684.cygnus.gnu-win32@opennt.com> References: <01BD0098.CFFDAEE0@rodney.wg.icl.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kevin Hughes Cc: "Gnuwin95 (E-mail)" It's not gnuwin that "remembers" the original case you typed - it's the filesystem. NTFS and FAT16 (under NT, anyway) are case-storing filesystems; Win32 is case-insensitive when looking at the stored filenames. Instead of using the bash built-in pwd, use /bin/pwd to get the "real" working directory in a case-consistent way. /bin/pwd walks the filesystem to find out where you are, while the bash built-in tracks it by assuming a starting point and watching the cd commands fly by. (If you cd through a symlink, I think you'll get wildly different answers from the builtin pwd and /bin/pwd; I don't know which is more useful to your scripts.) Jason - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".