Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 2 May 2025 17:18:10 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

For one thing it makes shell scripting complicated ...

This may be true of a straight POSIX shell, but there are techniques for
coping with arbitrary filenames in Bash, just for example.

... and for another this is just really confusing ...

Just tried it:

    ldo@theon:try> touch file1 file2$'\n'file3 file4
    ldo@theon:try> ls -1
    file1
    'file2'$'\n''file3'
    file4
    ldo@theon:try> ls -1 --quoting-style=literal
    file1
    file2?file3
    file4
    ldo@theon:try> rm file*
    ldo@theon:try> cd ..
    ldo@theon:hack> rmdir try

Wasn’t so bad, was it?