File Name Case Sensitivity & Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-27 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
> You got that wrong. The CYGWIN=glob:... option only affects how > globbing is performed on the command line arguments if the Cygwin > process has been started from a native Windows process. Full stop. I acknowledged *my* MISTAKE. I do so again. > Now, actual filename case sensitivity is an en

Re: File Name Case Sensitivity & Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 27 11:53, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > > You got that wrong. The CYGWIN=glob:... option only affects how > > globbing is performed on the command line arguments if the Cygwin > > process has been started from a native Windows process. Full stop. > > I acknowledged *my* MISTAKE. I do so again.

Re: File Name Case Sensitivity & Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Lee D. Rothstein (Fri, 27 May 2011 11:53:16 -0400) > Globbing is case sensitive while full command name invocation/full > filename use is not. And, you may never have been confused by that, > but I maintain it's very confusing. This has nothing to do with Cygwin. You are (still[1]) confusing Cyg

Re: File Name Case Sensitivity & Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-27 Thread Edward McGuire
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:38, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > This has nothing to do with Cygwin. You are (still[1]) confusing > Cygwin and your shell. You would hugely benefit from gaining some > basic knowledge about the tools you've been using since 1979. > > Your transcript was done in a shell called

Re: File Name Case Sensitivity & Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Edward McGuire (Fri, 27 May 2011 16:36:06 -0500) > The globbing is not where the confusion lies. This globbing: > > $ ls xwin* > ls: cannot access xwin*: No such file or directory > > works as expected and did not confuse anybody. Lee begs to differ: "Globbing is case sensitive [while ...]. An