[PLUG] Case insensitive fedora
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Thu Aug 2 16:35:00 UTC 2007
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Sean Whitney wrote:
> So I am running a copy of fedora in virtual box and I'm trying to build
> a rpm. I was getting a strange error that I finally traced down in how
> the shell is matching
>
> ls [A-Z]* on my debian machine give me my expected results, showing only
> filenames that start with capital letters.
>
> ls [A-Z]* on my fedora virtual box doesn't give me expected results, it
> returns all files that start with capital or lower case letters.
>
> The filesystem for the virtual box is logical volume ext3.
>
> Is this another case where RH/Fedora is trying to help me, and instead
> really pissing me off? Suggestions?
Fedora (and many other distributions) alias various commands.
Run "alias" at a command prompt and it will show which commands are
aliased to what. I am not certain where they are getting set.
--
"ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined.
ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct
assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..."
- Alan Cox
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