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Martin Hope
SvrGuy
Asked: 2012-04-15 08:25:13 +0800 CST
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We are using rsync to transfer some (millions) files from a Windows (NTFS/CYGWIN) server to a Linux (RHEL) server. We would like to force all file and directory names on the Linux box to be lower case.

Is there a way to make rsync automagically convert all file and directory names to lower case? For example, lets say the source file system had a file named:

/foo/BAR.gziP

Rsync would create (on the destination system)

/foo/bar.gzip

Obviously, with NTFS being a case insensitive file system there can not be any conflicts...

Failing the availability of an rsync option, is there an enhanced build or some other way to achieve this effect? Perhaps a mount option on CYGWIN? Perhaps a similar mount option on Linux?

Its RHEL, in case that matters.

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Martin Hope
JJJollyjim
Asked: 2011-01-31 11:14:24 +0800 CST
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I'm not sure what site this question should be on, please feel free to move as necessary. I am working on a project in PHP where I need to differentiate between the folders 'a' and 'A'. When I run the script:

<?php

mkdir('A', 0700);
mkdir('a', 0700);

?>

Only 'A' is created. Is this a mac problem, or is there something in a config file that I can change?

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Martin Hope
m_vitaly
Asked: 2010-12-31 06:27:01 +0800 CST
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Is there a way to make the file/dir auto-complete in bash case insensitive?

For example I would like to write:
/opt/ibm/whatever/test [TAB]

And bash will auto-complete it to:
/opt/IBM/Whatever/TESTfile

Or at least only the last part of test to TESTfile.

I know that filesystems are case-sensitive, I just don't want to remember which parts are UPPER-case, I want auto-complete to fix the path for me.

And if I have both TESTfile and testfile, just show me both of them like bash does today with auto-complete conflicts.

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