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inyourtenement on May 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cal – Display a Calendar in Your Terminal

That is insane. The case-insensitive filesystem means the same binary runs, but the binary has a switch on the case of its own name.

mcphage on May 12, 2016 [–]

A lot of apps pay attention to the name you run them as—for instance, making sure the correct name is reported when you list the command line switches. But this is definitely the most extreme case I'm aware of.

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