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…and whoever decided a file system should be case insensitive by default, I hate you.
What's the use case for case sensitive file names
Because I want to?
Well an uppercase ASCII char is a different char than its lowercase counterpart. I would argue that not differentiating between them is an arbitrary rule that doesn't make any sense, and in many cases, is more computationally difficult as it involves more comparisons and string manipulations (converting everything to lower case).
And the result is that you ultimately get files with visually distinct names, that aren't actually treated as distinct, and so there is a disconnect from how we process information and how the computer is doing it.
'A' != 'a', they are just as unequal as 'a' and 'b'
Edit: I would say the use case is exactly the same as programming case sensitivity, characters have meaning and capitalizing them has intent. Casing strategies are immensely prevalent in programming and carry a lot of weight for identifying programmers' intent (properties vs backing fields as an example) similar intent can be shown with file names.
Case insensitive handling protects end-users from doing "bad" things and confusion.
is exactly the same as programming case sensitivity
Me working on a case insensitive DB collation 🤡🚀🐱🏍
If I have four files, a.txt, A.txt, b.txt, and B.txt, in what order do they appear when I sort alphabetically?
edit: I don't understand why this was downvoted?
a, A, b, B?
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?
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!
Suffering
Every fucking folder in the file share has one of these
I saw somebody with Nintendo .DS_store as a username
Found one of these in the firmware zip file of my soundbar today.
I am not exactly a programmer. What is the .DS_Store file for?
Kind of a mac's version of desktop.ini. Remembers layouts and other metadata about a folder.
fd -HI '^\.DS_Store$' $HOME -tf -X rm -v
find . -name “.DS_Store” -type d -exec rm -rf {} + -print
That doesn't work, DS_Store
are files not directories ( you need to use -type f
).
An equivalent find
command would be:
find "$HOME" -type f -name '.DS_Store' -delete -print
find
takes a while; fd
is way, way faster, but find
is preinstalled, so there is that.