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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (36 children)

What's the use case for case sensitive file names

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In 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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
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