[olug] rsync converts UPPER to lower case?

[Matthew G. Marsh]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Brian Wiese wrote:

> Ok..
>
> I just started using "rsync" today to backup files locally. nice. =) but I
> have some directories with names in ALL CAPS, and when rsync copied them
> over to my new directory... they were all lowercase ... folders, files and
> extensions.

ROFL. You are rsync'ing between Windows and Linux - no?

> ??? Why ???  please help!
>
> I see no mention of this in the man pages nor on a quick google.  Is there
> anyway around this that anyone knows?  I dont know why the file names
> would be changed?  It also makes all of my files executable??

The "all of my files executable" is what leads me to state that you are
rsync'ing between Windows and Linux - or from LInux -> SAMBA etc etc.

> any help would be appreciated. thanks
>
> peace
>
> -----------------------------------------
> copying website files from:
> /var/www/www.brianwiese.net-old/    to   /var/www/www.brianwiese.net/
> (/var/www/www.brianwiese.net/  =equal to= /100gb1/web/www.brianwiese.net/)
>
> braveheart:/var/www/www.brianwiese.net/photos# ls
> dorm/  fam/  friends/  gso/  nerd/  olug/  party/  springbreak2002/  uno/
> braveheart:/var/www/www.brianwiese.net/photos# rm -fr *
> braveheart:/var/www/www.brianwiese.net/photos# ls
> /var/www/www.brianwiese.net-old/photos/
> DORM/  FAM/  FRIENDS/  GSO/  NERD/  OLUG/  PARTY/  UNO/  springbreak2002/
> braveheart:/var/www/www.brianwiese.net/photos# rsync -arupogtv
> /var/www/www.brianwiese.net-old/photos/ .
>
> ... working ...
>
> bwiese at braveheart:/100gb1/web/www.brianwiese.net/photos$ ls
> dorm  fam  friends  gso  nerd  olug  party ....
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