try out zoxide
crossdresser downloads? Don’t mind if I do!
My home is so populated of symlinks of similar namings: capital leters, other languages,…
So I realize this is a joke, but, and I am legit asking, isn’t there a command where you can tell Linux to treat Downloads and downloads as the same thing?
You can use casefold option on ext4.
In Bash you can use a shell option to alter this behavior:
shopt -s nocaseglob. See https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html for more options.Symlink ?
@nocturne
if you use #fishshell, it’ll autocomplete to “Downloads”ln -s downloads Downloads
or
ln -s Downloads downloads
depending on your situation.
Thank you. I thought I remembered using something like this back when I ran OpenSUSE and redhat years ago.
Sorta. If you put a FAT32 disk or sd card into a Linux system and mount it, it will ignore case because of the way the filenames are stored in that filesystem. However, there are a lot of important features you lose working on filesystems like that, so really it should be reserved for sneakernet with other operating systems.
I’ve kind of just accepted this is one of the differences between Linux and Windows that we as users need to understand is OS-specific.
alias downloads=“cd ~/Downloads”
edit: but if you want to get freaky in bash, alias downloads=“pushd ~/Downloads”
probably works in some other shells too
Maybe, but there is always the possibility that Downloads and downloads both exist in that path and in a case sensitive file system, those are going to be two completely different directories, so adding that obfuscation on top might wind up biting you later.
That’s where case-insensitive tab complete comes in. You can still tab through downloads and Downloads, and it doesn’t impact anything else.
Absolutely! That’s probably the best compromise to make it easier without risking something breaking or not working as expected
ln -s Dowloads downloads
alias downloads=‘Downloads’
alias Downloads=‘downloads’
Oh shit, I’ve never thought to do this… Would this work? Or are aliases only for commands?
This wouldn’t work.
Well, it kind of would if you did
alias downloads="cd Downloads"but then you wouldn’tcd downloadsyou’d just typedownloadson its own.As other comments here already point out, you can do it with a symlink if you really want it. i.e.
ln -s Downloads downloads, then you cancd downloads.Nowhere near the same as making everything effectively case insensitive, but it works for the odd one that you always mistype.
There are ways to patch command completion and/or write a variant
cdthat does the job intelligently too, but those are harder work.
ZSH will tab-complete it even if you have a small D
zsh not letting down our short king Ds
bcachefs entered the chat. Linus slammed the chat close.
I once got into it with a dev who had written an Arduino library. I reported a compile bug, and he said my environment must be broken. In fact, it was because the headers in the library were set for
, notArduino.h. Which would work fine on the default settings for Windows and Mac, but not Linux.D
I ran into that same issue. When case sensitive stuff hits for rhe first time.
Also I love linux’s cmd line. I grew up on MS-DOS and I feel like the computer hacker that I always dreamed I would be.
It’s pronounced “Data”.
$ ln -s ~/Downloads downloads
You can even hard link it if you feel fancy.
You can’t hardlink directories on a standard *nix filesystem. NTFS has that in the form of Junctions and it’s likely made more messes than it has prevented.
I have yet to see anyone brave enough, to mount /home to NTFS
Ah, yes, my bad. Need a file for hard links.
Just another reason to use fish
I use nushell btw, but I do agree fish autocompletions are the best!
I think you can use fish autocompletions in nushell?
I love fish. I just hate that it’s not posix compliant, so if I need to run posix stuff I need to switch to sh
why not zsh? that’s why I switched from fish
posix stuff
need to switch to sh
Then it turns out it was bash specific stuff
Rofl
For the first time I’ve actually started, like, using the Documents folder to store copies of receipts, contracts, etc.
I feel like I have finally entered adulthood.
Oh shit. I feel personally identified…
