How to rename file case-sensitive?

Igor Peshansky pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Fri Aug 17 16:39:00 GMT 2007


On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Jeff Hawk on 8/14/2007 9:22 AM:
> >> How about:
> >>
> >> $ mv foo bar && mv bar foo
> >
> > Looks like a NOOP to me
>
> Not if you were renaming 'Foo' to 'foo'.
>
> Wait - did you hear that?  I thought I saw a hippo in the other room, let
> me look again.... Hmm, am I dreaming things?  When I pick up on old
> threads, I get sort of jumpy, in case something were to happe

Uh-oh, something hipponed...
	Igor
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