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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Re: [FD] "." (period) in file extension(s) in windows

On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Gynvael Coldwind wrote: > It's the same with spaces btw (see also James Forshaw's mention of this > in his post [1]): That's almost as hilarious as the Mac: ozzie:~ dave$ date > test ozzie:~ dave$ cAT TeSt Wed Jan 3 16:03:19 AEDT 2018 ozzie:~ dave$ ls -l Test -rw-r--r-- 1 dave staff 30 Jan 3 16:03 Test ozzie:~ dave$ Yep; case-insensitive, sort of... Amongst other things it means that you can't have both "Makefile" and "makefile" (a fairly common trick) and completely screws up RSYNC when symlinks to CamelCase files are used (I'm looking at you, Perl...).

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