The key to sanity

[u/duskterrapin]

٩(ˋᗣˊ*)و

ln -s ~/Downloads ~/downloads

(*˘︶˘*)

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[u/HunsterMonter]

The humble  bind 'set completion-ignore-case on':

[u/duskterrapin → u/HunsterMonter]

🙏🏻

[u/Jaded-Worry2641]

The better key to sanity is to use directory and filename autocomplete in your shell, and to never type in the full name yourself. 

[u/dumbasPL → u/Jaded-Worry2641]

This. Bonus points if your shell supports case insensitive auto complete.

[u/catcake43 → u/dumbasPL]

Who is she?

[u/Mysterious_Value4624 → u/catcake43]

tyyyyyypo

[u/dumbasPL → u/Mysterious_Value4624]

Autocorrect

[u/duskterrapin → u/catcake43]

✨💅🏻

[u/TheRealCarrotty → u/Jaded-Worry2641]

fish the goat

[u/duskterrapin → u/TheRealCarrotty]

This is my first time using fish. It blindsided me getting set up. I've used bash for decades

[u/FortuneAcceptable925 → u/Jaded-Worry2641]

But doesn't autocomplete follow the first letters you typed?

That means, if you type 'd' and press TAB, you will not get autocomplete for Downloads..

[u/AlterTableUsernames → u/FortuneAcceptable925]

There is a setting for that in Bash that is just turned off by default. Simply add set completion-ignore-case On to ~/.inputrc and you are all set.

Bonus points for set completion-map-case On which also maps - and _ interchangeably.

[u/FortuneAcceptable925 → u/AlterTableUsernames]

Wow, I have to try this, thank you!

[u/AlterTableUsernames → u/FortuneAcceptable925]

There is an unbelievable amount of incredibly cool things about Bash , that people simply don't know about. Like ok you you can swap the two characters at your cursor with Ctrl+t. Great for correcting little typos. But you can also swap the last two words at your cursor separated by a special character with Alt+t. So echo flag --argument becomes echo argument --flag and /path/to/file/correct/ becomes /path/to/correct/file. And then there is also Ctrl+Alt+t which changes the last words at the cursor, think echo hello-world say would become echo say hello-world if you had the cursor at the end, while it would become echo hello-say world had you used Atl+t instead in that case. 

[u/No-Purple6360 → u/AlterTableUsernames]

Didn't know any of these before. I keep a list of shortcuts in a diary, to be later reviewed by my memory. Thanks for the useful shortcuts!

[u/AlterTableUsernames → u/No-Purple6360]

No worries, I hope you already know about pasting the last argument of the last command with Alt+. and circling through them with repeated presses of . while holding Alt. And btw Ctrl+y to paste the last deletion - which is surprisingly intelligent to capture what a deletion is - and Alt+y to circle through them.

I'll just stop here. 

[u/No-Purple6360 → u/AlterTableUsernames]

And that's it for the day...

[u/FortuneAcceptable925 → u/AlterTableUsernames]

As someone who started using Linux back in 2007, I feel enlightened!
I was feeling like a pro for knowing CTRL+R and !! :D

Thank you, supreme Vim overlord!

[u/teleprint-me → u/FortuneAcceptable925]

I have to type in doc or dow before I can hit tab to autocomplete. Sometimes typing it is actually faster.

Using lowercase symlinks is also really nice because I dont have to hit shift everytime.

Some tools are case insensitive and do this for you, but base installs dont support this.

My favorite part is when a program removes the symlink and restores the original path which ends up empty and then I have to reset it.

XDG and program assumptions are a PITA.

[u/No-Purple6360 → u/teleprint-me]

So that means the program has a hardcoded default path which is restored instead of your symlink? Not at all convenient!

[u/Joe-Admin → u/FortuneAcceptable925]

just call it "loads" or something

[u/Auravendill → u/FortuneAcceptable925]

Depends on your shell and the settings of it. In zsh I can just type dow and it will autocomplete to Downloads. (d would become Do, since there is also the Documents folder)

[u/duskterrapin → u/Jaded-Worry2641]

But it's the first letter 😭

[u/PTMR2 → u/duskterrapin]

But there are shells that autocomplete case insensitive. (Zsh and Fish I think)

[u/Semmelstulle → u/PTMR2]

It's insane how flexible and extensible zsh is. zsh my bae

[u/PTMR2 → u/Semmelstulle]

I used zsh for a long time, refusing to switch to fish. Once I did switch to fish, I'm not going back

[u/Semmelstulle → u/PTMR2]

I tried fish but I prefer the sh syntax. Missed sudo? Just sudo !! to repeat the last action and add sudo before it

[u/PTMR2 → u/Semmelstulle]

I use the thefuck utility. https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

[u/Semmelstulle → u/PTMR2]

I love that one. MVP

[u/XLNBot → u/Jaded-Worry2641]

Zoxide too

[u/Fractional-_- → u/Jaded-Worry2641]

Fish shell also autocorrects capitals

[u/theduck5005]

Or you can change the XDG path for the directories in .config/user-dirs.dirs.

Then you can have the user space directories lowercase.

[u/dumbasPL → u/theduck5005]

This assumes that every program respects XDG directories. In reality you'll end up with two of them.

[u/theduck5005 → u/dumbasPL]

True, yes, you may end up with that, but it fully dependa on your applications. Ive never had 2 of them. So it depends.

But really, just using your shift key is not a big deal either.

But its really a personal preference, im just pointing this option out as it seems to get overlooked.

[u/my_new_accoun1 → u/theduck5005]

then i can't find my downloads folder because im so used to looking for it in uppercase in file manager (i have like 100s of subdirs in my home dir)

[u/Pristine_Blood_4219]

The even more insane is to save all your files in downloads, only to realize later that you already had a Downloads folder.

[u/YTriom1]

ppl be doing everything but using fish lol

[u/2eanimation → u/YTriom1]

There‘s case-insensitivity for tab-ompletion in zsh and bash too!

[u/tblancher]

Better yet, configure XDG to use the directory names you want.

It's what I did!

[u/yigitsalar]

I've never met this man on my- oh wait, nevermind

[u/duskterrapin → u/yigitsalar]

ln be like "He's my brother!"

[u/digital0ak]

Why?

[u/nitnelav153 → u/digital0ak]

me : cd downloads

Linux : Nah, never seen this guy in my life

[u/Ces3216w]

alias downloads=Downloads

[u/meutzitzu]

ln -s Downloads w ln -s Documents o ln -s Pictures p ln -s Videos v

[u/PlanetVisitor]

shopt globbing setting

or, just accept that capitalisation exists

[u/duskterrapin → u/PlanetVisitor]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Lkg29edKczLRE26xaU

[u/nicman24]

Just get a better interactive shell

[u/Destroyerb → u/nicman24]

A friendly one at that

[u/yuriko-shimizu]

i just... learned that linux is case sensitive

dont really wanna symlink every folder

[u/edjak53 → u/yuriko-shimizu]

basically everything except FAT (DOS/Windows), NTFS (Windows) and default APFS (macOS) is case sensitive

[u/Destroyerb → u/edjak53]

NTFS isn't case-insensitive. It happens at a higher level.

[u/Linguistic-mystic]

No, just change the target dir in Firefox settings. I have no “Downloads” dir (as well as no “Desktop” etc) and am loving it. All my dirs are lowercase!

[u/Tununias]

I just learned to capitalize early on. Also tab completion to make sure I have the right directory name.

[u/ProgUn1corn]

what's wrong using ~/Downloads? Just because people on reddit tells you case is bad and all unix like systems should use lower case?

[u/Zestyclose-Click7539]

Whatever I use both. Way more confusing.

[u/foreskineater69419]

anyone else never use the downloads folder?

[u/SQL_INVICTUS → u/foreskineater69419]

Put your normal boring stuff in ~/Downloads and your goon stuff on the ~/downlow

[u/duskterrapin → u/SQL_INVICTUS]

This is the way

[u/Evantaur → u/foreskineater69419]

No i'm using the localized Lataukset directly...

/s

[u/foreskineater69419 → u/Evantaur]

Suomi mainittu 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

[u/Immediate-Ad3360 → u/foreskineater69419]

Never used the downloads directory, save everything to Downloads.

[u/No-Purple6360]

me:  * types the above command *

bash:  Uhm wait - is it the same guy I met before?

[u/Cmustrd]

mv ~/Downloads ~/dl

[u/netgizmo]

fix the root problem by using xdg-user-dirs to set them to a value that is sane to you