On Oct 16, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Jim Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
> And, case-sensitive vs case-insensitive? That debate doesn't apply on
> Unix systems---it's always case-sensitive. If I create two directories,
> foo and Foo, they are different directories, and I know, from decades of
> working with various Unix systems, that I am perfectly safe if I do a
> rm -rf on one, as it will NOT touch the other. The same goes for files.
This is demonstrably false. I don't know whether the classic UFS was
case-sensitive, but the HFS+ that every Mac comes pre-formatted with is most
decidedly case-insensitive.
% mkdir foo
% mkdir Foo
mkdir: Foo: File exists
% stat foo
16777217 50608286 drwxr-xr-x 2 larryv staff 0 68 "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014"
"Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" 4096 0 0
foo
% stat Foo
16777217 50608286 drwxr-xr-x 2 larryv staff 0 68 "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014"
"Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" 4096 0 0
Foo
% rmdir Foo
% rmdir foo
rmdir: foo: No such file or directory
%
vq
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