Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 04/05/2025 18:15, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:

On 04/05/2025 14:41, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

I mean you can trace the transmission of the command line from parent
to child process through the startup. There’s no splitting in there,
it’s an array of strings from top to bottom.

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But the command line is not an array of strings... any more than this
line of text is. That's what I don't understand. It's a single string

 The command line _in the shell_ is a single string, that you have typed
in:
     mv ugly_filename.txt 'beautiful filename.txt'
 Once the shell reads it, that still looks like a single string:
 

But you said
" it’s an array of strings from top to bottom."
Not "is a single string, that you have typed  in"
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