Re: Merging dirs with (almost) same name

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Magnus Therning wrote: top/sub1/sub2 top/Sub1/sub2 ... Is there some way (other than mounting a case insensitive file system, such as FAT) to merge these directories? I think something like this could work (in bash, anyway), though you'll probably have to do some tweaking:

Re: Merging dirs with (almost) same name

Magnus Therning wrote: >On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:45:24AM +0200, listrcv wrote: > > >>Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> >> >>>top/sub1/sub2 >>>top/Sub1/sub2 >>>... >>>Is there some way (other than mounting a case insensitive file system, >>>such as FAT) to merge these directories? >>> >>>

Re: Merging dirs with (almost) same name

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:45:24AM +0200, listrcv wrote: >Magnus Therning wrote: > >> top/sub1/sub2 >> top/Sub1/sub2 >> ... >>Is there some way (other than mounting a case insensitive file system, >>such as FAT) to merge these directories? > >How did you manage to split up the directories? It's a

Re: Merging dirs with (almost) same name

Magnus Therning wrote: top/sub1/sub2 top/Sub1/sub2 ... Is there some way (other than mounting a case insensitive file system, such as FAT) to merge these directories? How did you manage to split up the directories? How do you define 'merge'? What would you do with files like top/sub1/

Merging dirs with (almost) same name

I find myself with directory hierarchies that have been created on Windows (case insensitive, but case preserving) that I want to process on a Linux machine (ext2/3 FS, which is case sensitive). Due to different reasons, one being stupidity of others, I have trees where the same directory has been