On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 13:24 +0800, Kelvin Cheung wrote: > hello,erverbody. > I met a strange problem. When creat a directory with all letters > capitalized, the system will turn it into all small letters. > > [root@localhost doc]# mkdir DOC > [root@localhost doc]# ls > doc > > This often make mistakes when I compile programs. > Please help me, thanks very much. Three things come to mind (in order of decreasing likelihood). 1) Is it an unusual (eg. Windows-centric) filesystem you are creating the directory on? It may not be a filesystem that supports case-senstive filenames. To test, try the same thing on an ext3 filesystem. 2) I think there is a shell variable that can cause this. However, after having a look, it would appear the variable (nocaseglob) is only relevant to shell globs for files, so should not affect a default "ls". 3) Maybe something bizarre to do with LANG or LOCALE settings? Does it occur for mixed-vase directories? Eg. mkdir MIXEDcase; ls Cheers, Ben Ben Stringer ===== ben@xxxxxxxxxxx ==================================
