scp ignores case in filenames?

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Fri Jan 19 14:18:00 UTC 2018


Hi,

> What "exception"?
> 
> "FILE" is "FILE". "file" is "file".
> Nothing to do with each other.

The point is third party applications (and perhaps even some Apple 
stuff) is not well tested on anything other than the defaults. So its 
far from impossible for there to be applications that internally are not 
consistent with their naming. So part of the applications refers to 
/path/file and another part /path/FILE, and expect these to be the same. 
On the default mac install they are the same, but if you convert your 
system to respect the case, they aren't, and the application might stop 
working correctly... Its up you to decide which inconvenience annoys you 
more...

Chris


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