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From: Christian Taylor <cht@chello.at>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: zmv another zsh gem
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:06:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200502151206.39476.cht@chello.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <frd311ho2drm3ua97av105hcdp58v37ui9@4ax.com>

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 09:51, zzapper wrote:

> In comp.editors I came across mmv and zmv
> [...]
> The case changers don't work on Cygwin because WinXP grumbles target &
> source filename are the same!

Using mv to change the case of a filename doesn't work on any "caseless" file 
system like vfat, because both filenames refer to the same, existing file. 
Afaik POSIX compliance demands an error in that case. You'll have to do it in 
two steps.

Christian Taylor


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-15 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-15  8:51 zzapper
2005-02-15 11:06 ` Christian Taylor [this message]
2005-02-15 21:05   ` Seth Kurtzberg
2005-02-17 19:02   ` Peter Stephenson
2005-02-21 17:08     ` zzapper

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