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by alanfranz 2081 days ago
> If you're a long-time user of macOS you should be aware by now that it uses a case-sensitive filesystem.

No, by default it's case-insensitive.

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Yes on a second read I meant a case-preserving, not case-sensitive filesystem. The results that `ls` gets are cased and so pattern matching (which is case sensitive by default) on those results will fail with the wrong casing.