case-insensitive globbing

[Corinna Vinschen]

(I know, this is off-topic for this list, but I hate to let misconsceptions
 slip through by ignoring them)

On Apr 16 22:43, Dante Allegria wrote:
> 
> --- Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > regard because of the changed path convention. I long for the good
> >          ??????????????????????????????????????
> 
> Sorry. I'm referring to the whole /cygdrive thing. For example, I can
> no longer simply use "f:/path/file" like in the good ol'B20.1 days.

That's not correct.  Did you ever try it?

  $ uname -a
  CYGWIN_NT-5.1 cathi 1.5.20(0.155/4/2) 2006-04-14 16:05 i686 Cygwin
  $ echo blah > /cygdrive/i/foo
  $ cat i:/foo
  blah
  $ cat i:\\foo
  blah
  $ cat 'i:\foo'
  blah

You can also simply change your cygdrive prefix to something more
conveniant like this:

  $ mount -c /
  $ cat /i/foo
  blah

That's better than in b20.1 days, imho.  Anyway, please send further
complaints to the cygwin list.


Corinna

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