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Re: [FD] "." (period) in file extension(s) in windows
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- Subject: Re: [FD] "." (period) in file extension(s) in windows
- From: Dave Horsfall <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 16:09:58 +1100 (EST)
On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Gynvael Coldwind wrote:
It's the same with spaces btw (see also James Forshaw's mention of this
in his post [1]):
That's almost as hilarious as the Mac:
ozzie:~ dave$ date > test
ozzie:~ dave$ cAT TeSt
Wed Jan 3 16:03:19 AEDT 2018
ozzie:~ dave$ ls -l Test
-rw-r--r-- 1 dave staff 30 Jan 3 16:03 Test
ozzie:~ dave$
Yep; case-insensitive, sort of... Amongst other things it means that you
can't have both "Makefile" and "makefile" (a fairly common trick) and
completely screws up RSYNC when symlinks to CamelCase files are used (I'm
looking at you, Perl...).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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