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I was trying to copy some files with the same name, but different case, to the same directory.
See these steps:
~/tmp $ echo "First" > test
~/tmp $ echo "Second" > Test
~/tmp $ ls
test
~/tmp $ cat test
Second
What’s going on here?
It’s not from the Unix layer: it’s from the filesystem. Probably it is OSX runs on HFS+. No other Unix does. So that’s the difference. HFS+ is, by default, not case sensitive but is case preserving. You can re-fromat HFS+ as HFSX (case sensitive HFS+).