Re: case-duplicated filenames

[Måns Rullgård]

Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 8/11/09, Tony Mantler <nicoya@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> David Newall wrote:
>>> Tony Mantler wrote:
>>>> A co-worker reminded me this afternoon that the linux source tree does
>>>> not
>>>> get along well with case-insensitive filesystems. Ever the curious and
>>>> bored sort, and in the middle of an sqlite bender, I decided to cook up a
>>>> quick script to find exactly what files those are.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Such an extravagant process: you're just being silly.
>>
>> Well I did say I was bored. ;)
>
> Performance aside, it's a one-liner in shell* ;).
>
> find | sort | uniq -ic | grep -v " 1 "
>
> [*]  Posix compliance not guaranteed.  I don't know how standard uniq -i is.

It's not standard.  You're also assuming case-insensitive sort.  Using
sort -f increases the chances of this doing what you want, but it
still depends on the locale settings.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mans@xxxxxxxxx

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