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in thread use seems to be case INSENSITIVE!!

Mac is case insensitive, despite its BSD heritage.

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Re^4: use seems to be case INSENSITIVE!!
by markkawika (Monk) on Oct 13, 2009 at 00:39 UTC

    It is case insensitive by default, but you can't guarantee that every volume mounted on a Mac is case insensitive.

    Use diskutil to see if a volume is case-sensitive or not:

    $ uname Darwin $ diskutil info disk0s2 | grep 'File System' File System: Journaled HFS+ $ diskutil info disk1s2 | grep 'File System' File System: Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+