Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 5/2/25 11:18 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 02 May 2025 22:29:35 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

Generally I can deal with it, but I still have trouble with rsync.
There's something to do with single quotes vs. double quotes that I
haven't quite wrapped my head around yet.

 They are a general PITA. I really like those situations when you can have
single quotes within a double quoted string or double quotes within a
single quoted string and languages that play fast and loose like Python or
JavaScript where you can use either -- most of the time.

   NOTE that what you're advocating is More And More
   COMPLICATED ... work-arounds for work-arounds.
   Is THIS what we WANT ??? Is this GOOD ???
   Yea, yea, SOME Linux/Unix people advocate
   super-complicated ... great for their egos.
   Super-twisted scripts and command sets.
   Sorry, NO ... shouldn't BE like that.
   Apologies, but this is sort of existential
   level stuff. Keep it sane and easily
   comprehensible OR ELSE.
   At SOME point Winders becomes preferable.
   Horror yes, but ...........