File names displayed with random cases.

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>

> On 9/11/2011 3:48 AM, Larry Hoover wrote:
> > Thanks, Ken, I appreciate you taking the time. Funny, I have my
> > Thunderbird settings to go to plain text on celestial.com. Hmm.
> >
> > What I mean by random case is in the same directory listing it will
> > show:
> >
> > calendar-style.css
> > HHN.CSS
> > TARFILE
> > hhn.html
> > HHN.PHP
> > abc.php
> 
> But, what does the *nix box show for those filenames?
> 
> > I can rename the file to lower case and it will immediately convert
> > it to
> > uppercase in the Windows display but when I check on my Unix listing
> > it is
> > still lower case.
> >
> > I have noticed this for years and never cared, but when Filezilla
> > transfers
> > a file it converts it to the wrong case.
> [...]

Windows filesystems are case-preserving but case-insensitive; Samba is also
case-preserving.  So the case you're seeing is the case that was used to
create the file, though on the Unix side, any case will do, to paraphrase
Joseph.

Cheers,
-- jra
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