On 19 January 2018 at 11:23, Jan Stary wrote: > 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?
Yes. If you want/need a different behaviour, you should reformat your hard drive to a case-sensitive file system. Mojca