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Case insensitivity for files in a unix-ish environment seems like a great idea, until you're searching PATH for an executable called "head", and both HEAD and
by bengerbil 8y ago
Case insensitivity for files in a unix-ish environment seems like a great idea, until you're searching PATH for an executable called "head", and both HEAD and head exist. Do you go for first match, or best match, falling back to case-insensitivity? Bonus points for the confusion that ensues when some of the file systems being checked are case sensitive and some are only case preserving.