Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3

Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by quickslowdown on Friday May 31, 2024 @01:58AM (#40531938)

This is a personal reason, but the reason I prefer case sensitive directory names is I can make "logical groupings" for things. So, my python git directory might have "Projects/" and "Packages/," and the capitalization not only makes them stand out as a sort of "root path" for whatever's underneath, but the capitalization makes me conscious of the commands I'm typing with that path. I can't just autopilot a path name, I have to consciously hit shift when tab completion stops working.

That might sound like a dumb reason, but it's kept me from moving things into the wrong directory, or accidentally removing a directory multiple times in the past.

I also use Windows regularly and it really isn't a hindrance, so maybe I wouldn't actually be bothered if everything was case sensitive.

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Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by pwagland on Friday May 31, 2024 @08:47AM (#40534450)

TBF, you don't need case sensitive FS for that, just case retaining is enough. And then have the option on how to sort it.

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Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by josephcsible on Friday May 31, 2024 @12:15PM (#40536952)

Don't you need case sensitivity for this part?

> I can't just autopilot a path name, I have to consciously hit shift when tab completion stops working.

On a system that's case retaining but not case sensitive, wouldn't "pr" autocomplete to "Projects"?

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Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by zoky on Friday May 31, 2024 @08:58PM (#40541889)

No, MacOS doesn’t do that. `cat Foo` and `cat foo` will both work, but only the first one will tab complete if the file is called `Foo`.

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Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by chuckadams on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:36PM (#40555400)

zsh tab-completed both just fine, preserving the case in both. I’d have preferred it corrected the case, but meh.

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Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by notjoemama on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:51AM (#40536683)

I like it! That's a great idea.

To me, this sounds like a great practice for terminal environments but may be less intuitive when using file system apps. I could easily overlook a single letter capitalization in a GUI view of many directories. Maybe it's because at a terminal the "view" into the file system is narrow?

Now I'm wondering how I can use this in my docker images. I mean that might irritate devops. Well, maybe they'll like it too. Man, thanks for posting this.

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