WSL2 I was able to cd into a non-existent folder, how is that possible?

mLstudent33

1/16/24, 8:23 AM

(base) nyck33@LAPTOP-EEVJTJJ4:~$ cd $gatech
(base) nyck33@LAPTOP-EEVJTJJ4:/mnt/f/1_gatechSpring2023$ cd Infosec
(base) nyck33@LAPTOP-EEVJTJJ4:/mnt/f/1_gatechSpring2023/Infosec$ cd ..
(base) nyck33@LAPTOP-EEVJTJJ4:/mnt/f/1_gatechSpring2023$ ls
CN  InfoSec  Loans  ML  ML4T  NetworkSecurity6262  RL  gameAI  renumberVideos.py
(base) nyck33@LAPTOP-EEVJTJJ4:/mnt/f/1_gatechSpring2023$ cd InfoSec
(base) nyck33@LAPTOP-EEVJTJJ4:/mnt/f/1_gatechSpring2023/InfoSec$ cd ..
(base) nyck33@LAPTOP-EEVJTJJ4:/mnt/f/1_gatechSpring2023$ ls -al
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 1 nyck33 nyck33 4096 Jan  4 23:39 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 nyck33 nyck33 4096 Jan 16 09:58 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 nyck33 nyck33 4096 Jan  4 23:39 CN
drwxrwxrwx 1 nyck33 nyck33 4096 Jan 16 17:08 InfoSec
d--x--x--x 1 nyck33 nyck33 4096 Jan  4 23:39 Loans
d--x--x--x 1 nyck33 nyck33 4096 Jan  1 20:08 ML
d--x--x--x 1 nyck33 nyck33 4096 Jan  4 23:40 ML4T
d--x--x--x 1 nyck33 nyck33 4096 Jan 13 10:01 NetworkSecurity6262
d--x--x--x 1 nyck33 nyck33 4096 Jan  4 23:39 RL
drwxrwxrwx 1 nyck33 nyck33 4096 Jan 15 19:01 gameAI
---------- 1 nyck33 nyck33  885 Dec 11 10:51 renumberVideos.py
(base) nyck33@LAPTOP-EEVJTJJ4:/mnt/f/1_gatechSpring2023$

(base) nyck33@LAPTOP-EEVJTJJ4:/mnt/f/1_gatechSpring2023$ cd Infosec
(base) nyck33@LAPTOP-EEVJTJJ4:/mnt/f/1_gatechSpring2023/Infosec$ cd ..

Is this normal behavior?

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muru

1/16/24, 8:29 AM

The Windows APIs are are case-preserving, but not case sensitive (by default, anyway). That means that if you create a file named FooBar, then Windows will save it as FooBar, but any combination of cases can be used to access it (foobar, foObar, FooBAR, whatever).

You can enable case sensitivity if you want. See the following articles:

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