[OS X TeX] installing from TeXLive
Christopher Menzel
cmenzel at tamu.edu
Fri Nov 17 16:01:34 CET 2006
> On 2006 Nov 17 , at 13.19, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>
>> The command line is not case sensitive, at least not in bash shell.
>
> To be precise, the command line (ie, bash) _is_ case sensitive, but
> the filesystem is not.
Right. In particular, tab-completion is case sensitive -- type "cd /
usr/local/tet<TAB>" and bash will simply bark at you. :-)
> Thus 'ls /usr/local/teTeX' and 'ls /usr/local/tetex' are different
> commands -- bash and other shells are perfectly able to tell them
> apart -- but on HFS+, 'teTeX' and 'tetex' are the same file.
Yes -- and note that some folks do use traditional unix filesystems
on their Macs, esp in environments where they have to rsync with non-
Mac unix machines that might have files and dirs that differ only in
case. Is there any reason why Apple clobbered case-sensitivity?
From my largely uneducated perspective, it doesn't seem to have been
a good choice.
Chris Menzel
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