Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 2025-05-02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On 2 May 2025 17:18:10 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
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For one thing it makes shell scripting complicated ...

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

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Just tried it:
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    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
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Wasn’t so bad, was it?

That (at least defaulting to that escaped/quoted output) was a recent
change in GNU ls, wasn't it?

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Nuno Silva