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minus-squareReddfugee42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoWhat’s the use case for case sensitive file names
minus-squareSpeiser0@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThink the other way around: What’s the use case for case insensitive file names? Does it justify the effort and complexity for the filesystem and the programs to know the difference between lower and upper space chars?
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year ago What’s the use case for case insensitive file names? Human comprehension. Readme, readme, README, and ReadMe are not meaningfully different to the average user. And for dorks like us - oh my god, tab completion, you know I mean Documents, just take the fucking d!
minus-squareCrusherBiceps@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIn case you or others reading this don’t know: You can set bash’s tab-completion to be case-insensitive by putting set completion-ignore-case on Into your .inputrc (or globally /etc/inputrc)
What’s the use case for case sensitive file names
Think the other way around: What’s the use case for case insensitive file names? Does it justify the effort and complexity for the filesystem and the programs to know the difference between lower and upper space chars?
Human comprehension.
Readme, readme, README, and ReadMe are not meaningfully different to the average user.
And for dorks like us - oh my god, tab completion, you know I mean Documents, just take the fucking d!
In case you or others reading this don’t know: You can set bash’s tab-completion to be case-insensitive by putting
Into your .inputrc (or globally /etc/inputrc)
Thank you