This is of course not MP related; please kindly point me to the appropriate Apple forum.
Create a local file: user@local$ echo local > /tmp/file Prepare a file on a remote machine, with the "same" name, but uppercase: user@remote$ echo remote > /tmp/FILE Now copy the remote file to local: user@local$ scp user@remote:/tmp/FILE /tmp/ user@local$ cat /tmp/file remote user@local$ ls -li /tmp/FILE /tmp/file 5155210 -rw-r--r-- 1 hans wheel 7 Jan 19 11:19 /tmp/FILE 5155210 -rw-r--r-- 1 hans wheel 7 Jan 19 11:19 /tmp/file This is MacOS 10.13.2. Is this expected? I see it but I don't believe it. Jan