Open SeriousBuggie opened 3 years ago
The game's internal file manager already performs case-insensitive file lookups whenever it does not find an exact match. A small script to remove duplicate files would indeed be helpful
Anyway, there is a lot of content (maps and mods) that have this problem, which makes it practically impossible to handle it manually, so that script that checks through thousands of these files is a 'musthave' thing.
Simple example to list duplicate files may look like this:
find ./System/* -maxdepth 0 -printf '%f\n' | sort -f | uniq -id
Having this list then it is easy to delete these files. Also, it could be improved to check file date, so that to list older file versions...
Historically exists few variant of naming some files. For example:
So server/client must check on start duplicates and if found ambiguous names, then exit with appropriate message to log and stderr. Here example of problem: https://ut99.org/viewtopic.php?p=127462#p127462
Because if loaded not proper version it is Undefined Behavior.
As simplest solution list files all important directories and check for matches in case-insensitive manner.