How to learn exact spelling of directories and files: /temp vs. / TEMP etc.
Earnie Boyd
earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Mon Jun 5 07:42:00 GMT 2000
--- "Tolkin, Steve" <Steve.Tolkin@fmr.com> wrote:
> Dear Corrina (who will get a cc of this post),
> Thanks for your response to my earlier email.
> > > 3. Why doesn't ls tem* find the directory named temp ?
> >
> > Your TEMP directory has uppercase characters in it's name.
> > The pattern matching is case sensitive by default.
> > If you call `ls temp', no pattern matching takes place,
> > so the directory is found because the Windows file systems
> > aren't case sensitive but only case preserving.
>
> So now it become VERY important for me to determine the actual spelling of
> the name, i.e. which letters if any are capitalized. How can I do that?
> Neither ls nor \w in the PS1 prompt tells me that!
> They both just use the same capitalization I provided in the command!
>
> 598/> ls -ld temp
> drwxrwxrwt 8 administ SYSTEM 32768 Jun 5 09:45 temp
> 599/> ls -ld TEMP
> drwxrwxrwt 8 administ SYSTEM 32768 Jun 5 09:45 TEMP
> 616/TEMp> ls -ldn ../tEmP
> drwxrwxrwt 8 544 18 32768 Jun 5 10:04 ../tEmP
> 617/TEMp> ls -ldn ../TemP
> drwxrwxrwt 8 544 18 32768 Jun 5 10:04 ../TemP
> ....
> 644/tEmP> cd /TEMP
> 645/TEMP> cd /temp
> 646/temp> cd /tEmP
> 647/tEmP>
>
> Similarly I want to learn the exact spelling of file names.
>
ls -ldn /
would return what you want.
Cheers,
=====
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Earnie Boyd: < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >
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