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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 23:59:08 -0000 (UTC)
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On 02 May 2025 20:14:05 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> I remember trying to put a letter in uppercase in the name of an
> existing file. I had to rename the file differently to be able rename it
> back with the uppercase letter. That was very poorly handled by Windows.
> Don't know how it is now.

    ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> touch try.dat
    ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> ls -l
    total 0
    -rw-r--r-- 1 ldo users 0 May  3 11:57 try.dat
    ldo@theon:caseinsens-try> mv try.dat TRY.DAT
    mv: 'try.dat' and 'TRY.DAT' are the same file

I guess Linux isn’t any better ...