Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 5/2/25 4:11 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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?

   Ummmmmm ... WAY more complicated than
   we'd all like  :-)
   I can go hard-core scripts IF needed,
   but I don't LIKE it. Much too hard for
   basic searching here.