At 09:05 AM 5/3/2002, Jason Tishler wrote: >Larry, > >On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:51:45AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > As you can see, you cannot rename file differing only by case. This is a > > Windowsism. Sorry. Complain to Bill if you don't like it! ;-) You'll > > need to do this as a two step process (i.e. move 'abc' to a different name > > temporarily and then move it to 'Abc'). > >The above is not true: > > C:\>dir > [snip] > 05/03/2002 08:48a <DIR> bar > 05/03/2002 08:47a 0 foo > ... > > C:\>ren bar BAR > ren bar BAR > > C:\>ren foo FOO > ren foo FOO > > C:\>dir > [snip] > 05/03/2002 08:48a <DIR> BAR > 05/03/2002 08:47a 0 FOO
Well, if you mean that the issue is not, strictly speaking, a Windows issue, there's some validity to that statement. Given all the history of "mv" functionality, I personally hesitate to suggest that there's a patch to "mv" that will make this possible without breaking something else that's important for "mv" in Cygwin/Windows (though I don't discourage others from trying if they are so inclined). It is Windows, in general, that enforces case-insensitivity of it's file systems though, which doesn't help. Of course, you've also pointed out that there is an alternative to "mv" in "DOS-land" that allows this operation to be done in one step, for those that prefer such a thing! ;-) Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/