bug in rm???

[Tim Currie]

Joolz wrote:

>>[Simon at the Threshold schreef op 03-01-2004 10:54 +0000]
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>>jason pearl wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 03:16, Joolz wrote:
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>>>>IMO this is _very_ dangerous behaviour, one would expect Linux
>>>>command to be compatible with the Linux filesystem (maybe rm is a
>>>>port of del :-\)
>>>>
>>>>Is this a known issue? Right know I have only Fedora at hand, but
>>>>I wonder if other distro's have it too.
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>>>>
>>>heres what i got.,.. theres gotta be something wrong with your
>>>fedora..  i am using mandrake 9.2..
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>>>
>>Just checked on both my fedora 2115 and 2135 systems and they are
>>ok, its not something dim with the filesystem options? (Case
>>insensitve perhaps?) sounds like a NTFS/VFAT feature to me.
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>*blush* I has nocaseglob set. I should have seen that, sorry for
>making an idiot of myself :-\
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hmmm... ya... TELLING it to ignore case *has* been known to induce that 
behaviour in the past. Sheesh! Now *I* feel like a dummy because I 
didn't think to suggest that. :)

-Tim

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