Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:44:27 05/23/02
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On May 23, 2002 at 23:18:08, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >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? No. learn how to use regular expressions. Or learn how to do find /home/hyatt -print | grep -i filenameyouwant and you are set. You get your case insensitivity. I get my case sensitivity. You _can_ do it either way in linux. In windows you are stuck. > >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. Clearly "bob hyatt" is gramatically incorrect. Proper nouns are capitalized to be correct... > >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. Depends on how you want to search. if you like "find" then pair it with grep and use the -i option to ignore case. Otherwise, regular expressions are trivial... > >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. And would they _really_ mix case in filenames just for the heck of it? I don't think so.
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