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ashgromnies
ashgromnies

Reputation: 3335

zsh -- not seeming case sensitive?

I was trying to copy some files with the same name, but different case, to the same directory.

See these steps:

~/tmp $ echo "First" > test
~/tmp $ echo "Second" > Test
~/tmp $ ls
test
~/tmp $ cat test
Second

What's going on here?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 778

Answers (2)

Irena Swanson
Irena Swanson

Reputation: 1

This has nothing to do with case sensitivity. If you wanted both "First" and "Second" to show up in the file test, you should have written

echo "Second" >> test

(> writes to a file, whereas >> appends to a file)

Upvotes: -1

Tiago Peczenyj
Tiago Peczenyj

Reputation: 4623

It's not from the Unix layer: it's from the filesystem. Probably it is OSX runs on HFS+. No other Unix does. So that's the difference. HFS+ is, by default, not case sensitive but is case preserving. You can re-fromat HFS+ as HFSX (case sensitive HFS+).

Upvotes: 8

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