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rohitsz

Jan 5 2008, 10:48 AM

Hi,
I am experiencing a strange behaviour.
I am unable to rename a directory to its all caps equivalent.
Here's the output:

CODE

[rkumar@localhost oawclassic.generatorwc.project]$ ls
build.properties* meta-inf/ model/ oaw/ pom.xml* src/ target/ todo.txt*
[rkumar@localhost oawclassic.generatorwc.project]$ mv meta-inf/ META-INF
mv: cannot move `meta-inf/' to `META-INF': File exists
[rkumar@localhost oawclassic.generatorwc.project]$ ls META-INF
ls: cannot access META-INF: No such file or directory
[rkumar@localhost oawclassic.generatorwc.project]$

Ok if this was not strange, see this:

CODE

[rkumar@localhost oawclassic.generatorwc.project]$ rename meta-inf/ META-INF
[rkumar@localhost oawclassic.generatorwc.project]$ ls
build.properties* meta-inf/ model/ oaw/ pom.xml* src/ target/ todo.txt*
[rkumar@localhost oawclassic.generatorwc.project]$

The rename seems to be successful, but still i am not able to see the all caps renamed file!

Please suggest how to achieve what i want to do!

Thanks,
rohit.

scarecrow

Jan 5 2008, 05:23 PM

Do it without the slash

CODE

mv foo FOO

rohitsz

Jan 5 2008, 06:42 PM

Hi,

QUOTE (scarecrow @ Jan 5 2008, 10:53 PM)

Do it without the slash

CODE

mv foo FOO

Here's the output:

CODE

[rkumar@localhost oawclassic.generatorwc.project]$ mv meta-inf META-INF
mv: cannot move `meta-inf' to `META-INF': File exists
[rkumar@localhost oawclassic.generatorwc.project]$

No success still !

thanks,
rohit.

scarecrow

Jan 5 2008, 08:50 PM

Strange... it works fine here.
Any chance that dir being on FAT or NTFS filesystem?
And- what's the output of

CODE

locale -a

in a console?

rohitsz

Jan 7 2008, 02:31 PM

Hi,

QUOTE (scarecrow @ Jan 6 2008, 02:20 AM)

Strange... it works fine here.
Any chance that dir being on FAT or NTFS filesystem?
And- what's the output of

CODE

locale -a

in a console?

yes the dir is a FAT32 filesystem.
here's the output:

CODE

[rkumar@localhost oawclassic.generatorwc.project]$ locale -a
C
CP1251
en
en_AU
en_AU.ISO-8859-1
en_AU.UTF-8
en_BE
en_BE.ISO-8859-1
en_BE.ISO-8859-15
en_BE.UTF-8
en_BW
en_BW.ISO-8859-1
en_BW.UTF-8
en_CA
en_CA.ISO-8859-1
en_CA.UTF-8
en_DK
en_DK.ISO-8859-1
en_DK.UTF-8
en_GB
en_GB.ISO-8859-1
en_GB.UTF-8
en_HK
en_HK.ISO-8859-1
en_HK.UTF-8
en_IE
en_IE.ISO-8859-1
en_IE.ISO-8859-15
en_IE.UTF-8
en_IN
en_IN.UTF-8
en_NG
en_NG.UTF-8
en_NZ
en_NZ.ISO-8859-1
en_NZ.UTF-8
en_PH
en_PH.ISO-8859-1
en_PH.UTF-8
en_SG
en_SG.ISO-8859-1
en_SG.UTF-8
en_US
en_US.ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8
en_ZA
en_ZA.ISO-8859-1
en_ZA.UTF-8
en_ZW
en_ZW.ISO-8859-1
en_ZW.UTF-8
hi
hi_IN
hi_IN.UTF-8
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-13
ISO-8859-14
ISO-8859-15
ISO-8859-2
ISO-8859-3
ISO-8859-4
ISO-8859-5
ISO-8859-7
ISO-8859-9
KOI8-R
KOI8-U
POSIX
UTF-8
[rkumar@localhost oawclassic.generatorwc.project]$

Could it be that some linux process is watching over this directory?
Thus not allowing the rename to happen.

thanks,
rohit.

neddie

Jan 7 2008, 03:24 PM

If it's FAT32, it won't work because FAT32 is case-insensitive. It can't distinguish between meta-inf and META-INF.
If you're using the rename command, it doesn't work with just two parameters as you've called it - you really need three parameters to get it to work. See man rename for more info - or better still just stick with the "mv" command which is simpler.

scarecrow

Jan 7 2008, 06:45 PM

Both FAT32 and NTFS do not distinguish upper- and lowercase (and windows in general). Only things like passwords and files within a cifs filesystem are case sensitive.

rohitsz

Jan 8 2008, 03:06 PM

Hi,

Thanks to needie and scarecrow

It was the fat32 partition that caused all this trouble.
I shifted my codebase to an ext3 partition and it worked great!

Thanks a ton to both of you for pointing this out!

rohit.

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