Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 20:18:08 05/23/02
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On May 23, 2002 at 17:14:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 23, 2002 at 16:03:11, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>The result is a clear success: the stuff is unuseable for normal people. And >>Linuxers like it: normal people are a threat to the philosophy. They might >>demand stupid things, like being able to retrieve a file called "WCCCxxx" by >>just typing "wccc*". Geez! > > >Or demanding a bit of mental control from the user by telling him "If you >want to retrieve a file by typing wccc* then when you create it, create it as >wcccxxx. I have 40,870 files on my computer at the moment. I have no idea how many of them were created by me, but I bet it's a few hundred, maybe even a thousand. Do you really expect me to remember the case of every filename I've created just to be able to find some file when I'm looking for it? If I write a message and ask for the opinion of "bob hyatt", do you not respond because the capitalization of your name is not correct? Maybe it refers to a different person, even? If we follow your thinking, this is the case. When I search for files, I generally use wildcards because I only remember the type of file - it's much easier for me to see a list of 30 files or so and pick the correct one from the list, than to remember exactly the filename I'm looking for. If regular expressions are very similar to wildcards, then it's not too much of a problem and I withdraw my stance on this, but I gather they're a bit more complicated. As for writing a new find command or something, a lot of people can do it, and a lot of those people probably use some form of Unix already, but could the average person who wants to use email/word processing/AOL/etc? I really doubt it.
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