[tex-live] The adforn package.
cfrees at imapmail.org
cfrees at imapmail.org
Thu Oct 7 02:41:09 CEST 2010
On Wed 6th Oct, 2010 at 12:17, Claire M. Connelly seems to have written:
> "CFR" == Clea F Rees <cfrees at imapmail.org>
>
> CFR> although it does make it interesting to fix because
> CFR> something like mv uOrnementsADF.fd uornementsadf.fd will
> CFR> fail since you cannot rename a file to its existing name!
>
> CFR> even more confusingly, the rename "succeeds" according to
> CFR> the system (exit 0) and no error message is produced. but
> CFR> no change is made to the name either.
>
> Do you have the GNU coreutils in your path?* Seems like the
> Apple/BSD tools work fine, but GNU mv gives you the error.
Yes. Actually GNU mv is gmv but in my normal shell environment mv is a
function which uses gmv. I hadn't thought to check that...
> For fun (?), with the Apple/BSD tools, it seems like you can
> manipulate a file using any mix of capitals and lowercase you
> like, regardless of what the filename appears to be. So
>
> % touch yabba
> % mv YABBA yaBBa
> % ls y*
> yaBBa
>
> !
Weird. No less weird and no less confusing than the results with
coreutils though it would make renaming easier...
Thanks!
> Claire
>
> * I have them installed, but with ``g'' at the start of their
> names, so I get the usual BSD tools unless I specifically ask
> for the GNU variant.
>
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