Reasonable and sane behavior of cd. Just get into the habit of always using lower case names for files and directories, that's how our forefathers did it.
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Yes, but this is the default on many distros, so for once the end user is not to blame
Even worse, many components will ignore the XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR var so even if you manually change it to $HOME/downloads (lower-case) it will often break things.
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Use a shell with decent auto-completion. I have not been irritated by this in years.
Won’t autocomplete fail if you do “cd d” and then try the autocomplete?
Or is that what you mean by “decent” auto-completion?
No, it will probably go to "Documents", and if you hit tab again it should go to "Downloads". (Assuming you have the normal default folders)
bash's autocomplete fails (at least with default settings), but e.g. zsh can figure out what you mean
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You've come from Windows and have brought dangerous expectations.
MacOS has a case insensitive file system. It causes me untold grief
Is a 40 year old it guy who love linux, wat
Macos is case insensitive?!
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This is a feature, not a bug
This is completely unrelated to the meme at hand, but the title just reminded me that for a while, Merriam-Webster mistakenly included the word "Dord" to mean density - because an editor misread the entry for "D or d" as an abbreviation of density.
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echo 'set completion-ignore-case On' >> ~/.inputrc
also idk does zsh do this automatically? don’t think i’ve ever had this problem except on legacy AF servers
i mean… unless you don’t tab complete, but then who doesn’t spam tab 30 times every keystroke?
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I love how many people brought up the Turkish "I" as if everyone here is on the Unicode steering committee or just got jobs for Turkish facebook.
I, an English speaker, have personally solved the problem by not having a Turkish I in the name of my Downloads directory, or any other directory that I need to cd into on my computer. I'm going to imagine the Turks solve it by painstakingly typing the correct I, or limiting their use of uppercase I's in general.
In fact, researching the actual issue for more than 1 second seemingly shows that Unicode basically created this problem themselves because the two I's are just seperate letters in Turkic languages. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I_in_computing
If you nerds think this is bad try doing Powershell for any amount of time. It is entirely case-insensitive.
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So you type cd D tab and it brings you to Documents
alias d="cd ~/Downloads"
using capital letters in file/directory names on Linux :|
It's a default on some distros, unfortunately, and changing it without updating the necessary env vars will break a bunch of stuff.
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I don't get it... "D" is a complete different character than "d" is.
It's like wondering why "file1" is not opened when I typed in "file2".
that's not how language works though, in human language (i know this can be confusing) d and D are the same letter just in different forms.
It's one thing to have case sensitivity in programs doing data manipulation, that makes sense because you don't want the program to accidentally use the wrong files without supervision.
But when you have an interactive prompt you know what you're doing, you can see if you entered the wrong directory, and you're generally going to be working in directories that you have yourself organized.
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You know you prefer the D
OP can definitely handle a bigger D
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