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) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Moore, Paul" , "'Gnu Win32'" 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 >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".