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Case sensitivity - Bash Tutorial
From the course: Troubleshooting and Debugging Bash
Case sensitivity
- [Instructor] Sometimes, case sensitivity can be an issue, right down to the file system level. Case sensitivity, in a file system, refers to a storage file system's ability to store two files of the same name in the same location, so long as the case of the characters is different. A file system without case sensitivity will not allow two identically named files to exist in the same folder, regardless of the case of the letters. MacOS supports two case-sensitive file systems but one thing that may prevent you from utilizing what you believe to be a well-written, generic script that should function across multiple operating systems, is that some systems may be case-sensitive, your cross platform script might technically work on Linux and macOS, but may fail to work because of incorrect capitalization when typing file names or paths to resources. There are a couple of ways of handling this. First it does make sense to…
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