• sircac@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 months ago

    My home is so populated of symlinks of similar namings: capital leters, other languages,…

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    I once got into it with a dev who had written an Arduino library. I reported a compile bug, and he said my environment must be broken. In fact, it was because the headers in the library were set for #include 'arduino.h', not Arduino.h. Which would work fine on the default settings for Windows and Mac, but not Linux.

  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
    8·
    3 months ago

    I ran into that same issue. When case sensitive stuff hits for rhe first time.

    Also I love linux’s cmd line. I grew up on MS-DOS and I feel like the computer hacker that I always dreamed I would be.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        4·
        3 months ago

        This wouldn’t work.

        Well, it kind of would if you did alias downloads="cd Downloads" but then you wouldn’t cd downloads you’d just type downloads on its own.

        As other comments here already point out, you can do it with a symlink if you really want it. i.e. ln -s Downloads downloads, then you can cd downloads.

        Nowhere near the same as making everything effectively case insensitive, but it works for the odd one that you always mistype.

        There are ways to patch command completion and/or write a variant cd that does the job intelligently too, but those are harder work.

        Day-late edit that no-one will see: The answer is bind "set completion-ignore-case on". It’s embarrassing how simple this is and how long it took me to find it. I may have been trying to emulate this feature in other ways for a long time.

  • nocturne@slrpnk.net
    16·
    3 months ago

    So I realize this is a joke, but, and I am legit asking, isn’t there a command where you can tell Linux to treat Downloads and downloads as the same thing?

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      51·
      3 months ago

      I guess you could use an ntfs filesystem… Or if you just mean for autocompletion, I’ve found that if there’s no completions matching e.g. readme then zsh will autocomplete README. But I’d say case sensitivity of files is a feature not a bug. People use it to make files starting with a capital letter appear at the top of a list of files in a directory.

    • overload@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      3 months ago

      I’ve kind of just accepted this is one of the differences between Linux and Windows that we as users need to understand is OS-specific.

      • nocturne@slrpnk.net
        3·
        3 months ago

        Thank you. I thought I remembered using something like this back when I ran OpenSUSE and redhat years ago.

    • angband@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      alias downloads=“cd ~/Downloads”

      edit: but if you want to get freaky in bash, alias downloads=“pushd ~/Downloads”

      probably works in some other shells too

    • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca
      13·
      3 months ago

      Sorta. If you put a FAT32 disk or sd card into a Linux system and mount it, it will ignore case because of the way the filenames are stored in that filesystem. However, there are a lot of important features you lose working on filesystems like that, so really it should be reserved for sneakernet with other operating systems.

    • TVA@thebrainbin.org
      311·
      3 months ago

      Maybe, but there is always the possibility that Downloads and downloads both exist in that path and in a case sensitive file system, those are going to be two completely different directories, so adding that obfuscation on top might wind up biting you later.

      • jonathan@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        That’s where case-insensitive tab complete comes in. You can still tab through downloads and Downloads, and it doesn’t impact anything else.

        • TVA@thebrainbin.org
          5·
          3 months ago

          Absolutely! That’s probably the best compromise to make it easier without risking something breaking or not working as expected

    • ViaFedi@lemmy.ml
      14·
      3 months ago

      $ ln -s ~/Downloads downloads

      ln -s is a symlink. You’re better off editing user-dirs.dirs anyway

    • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz
      62·
      3 months ago

      You can’t hardlink directories on a standard *nix filesystem. NTFS has that in the form of Junctions and it’s likely made more messes than it has prevented.