Okay, I'm gonna throw a bit more fuel onto this fire :-)
On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 at 15:58, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> If you ask folks like Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, they will tell you
> all the unicorns are dead on Linux because everything is _not_ a file.
> The only safe harbor for the unicorns
Jeffrey Walton (12023-11-03):
> If you ask folks like Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, they will tell you
> all the unicorns are dead on Linux because everything is _not_ a file.
They might tell you that, but that is wrong nonetheless: they fumbled
the “everything is a file” from the start.
In origi
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 11:57:59AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 1:56 PM wrote:
[...]
> > I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies.
>
> If you ask folks like Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, they will tell you
> all the unicorns are dead on Linux b
On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 1:56 PM wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 08:01:19PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > I have a "/source-folder/" which contains very large tree of folders and
> > files.
> > I've manually copied a set of folders and files from it to a
> > "/d
On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 3:18 AM Loris Bennett wrote:
>
> writes:
>
> > I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies.
>
> What's the objection to 'folder'? I don't use it myself, but it seems
> fairly reasonable to me. Many desktop environments use an old hanging
> folder ic
On 2023-11-02, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> I've tried to mount filesystems (all NTFS) with different locale parameters,
> still ended up with either garbled filenames or charset conversion and 'path
> too long' complains from rsync.
I use rsync on ntfs without locale parameter. This is my fst
On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 02:42:41PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
[encodings, file systems]
> I've tried to mount filesystems (all NTFS) with different locale parameters,
> still ended up with either garbled filenames or charset conversion and 'path
> too long' complains from rsync.
I see.
Alexander V. Makartsev (12023-11-02):
> It could be also a limitation or bug of overlayfs since it doesn't have
> locale/iocharset/codepage parameters for mount.
No, it is not: Unix file names are made of octets, not characters.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
On 02.11.2023 12:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Rsync wasn't helpful in my case. It refused to recognize file names
properly, complaining about charset encoding, not even with --iconv
parameters.
Probably because of locale differences between my system and mounted
filesystems and who knows what else
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 09:59:20 +0100
Nicolas George wrote:
Michael Kjörling (12023-11-02):
I don't have a reference handy, but I do distinctly recall reading
that Microsoft introduced the term "folder" specifically to also be
able to refer to a concept of "something which is _not_ a directory
but
Michael Kjörling (12023-11-02):
> I don't have a reference handy, but I do distinctly recall reading
> that Microsoft introduced the term "folder" specifically to also be
> able to refer to a concept of "something which is _not_ a directory
> but containing a collection of some kind of items".
>
>
On 2 Nov 2023 08:54 +0100, from to...@tuxteam.de:
>> What's the objection to 'folder'? I don't use it myself, but it seems
>> fairly reasonable to me. Many desktop environments use an old hanging
>> folder icon in their file browsers.
>
> This is Microsoft jargon. Eek.
I don't have a reference
On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 12:36:23PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 01.11.2023 22:55, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies.
> >
> If I say tater instead of potato would it also make you sad?
> Sorry to break it to you, but unicorns
Am 02.11.2023 um 08:36 schrieb Alexander V. Makartsev:
> Rsync wasn't helpful in my case. It refused to recognize file names
> properly, complaining about charset encoding, not even with --iconv
> parameters.
> Probably because of locale differences between my system and mounted
> filesystems and w
On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 07:50:16AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote:
> writes:
>
> > I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies.
>
> What's the objection to 'folder'? I don't use it myself, but it seems
> fairly reasonable to me. Many desktop environments use an old hanging
>
fslint (no longer in Debian) and dupeguru may be of interest to you.
I have used both.
RLH
Hi.
On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 07:50:16AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote:
> writes:
>
> > I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies.
>
> What's the objection to 'folder'?
$ mkdir /tmp/4
$ stat /tmp/4 | head -2
File: /tmp/4
Size: 4096Blocks: 8
Alexander V. Makartsev (12023-11-02):
> Rsync wasn't helpful in my case. It refused to recognize file names
> properly, complaining about charset encoding, not even with --iconv
> parameters.
> Probably because of locale differences between my system and mounted
> filesystems and who knows what els
On 01.11.2023 22:55, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies.
If I say tater instead of potato would it also make you sad?
Sorry to break it to you, but unicorns were extinct a long time ago,
along with BBS', modems, MSDOS, ISA-VLB slots, jump
writes:
> I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies.
What's the objection to 'folder'? I don't use it myself, but it seems
fairly reasonable to me. Many desktop environments use an old hanging
folder icon in their file browsers.
In German there are also two words: 'Or
On 01.11.2023 20:07, Nicolas George wrote:
Hi.
Alexander V. Makartsev (12023-11-01):
I have a "/source-folder/" which contains very large tree of folders and
files.
The word is “directory”, not “folder”.
Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't meant to invoke wrath of the ancients.
I thought about it and
On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 08:01:19PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I have a "/source-folder/" which contains very large tree of folders and
> files.
> I've manually copied a set of folders and files from it to a
> "/destination-folder-one/" and
> copied another set of fo
Hello everyone.
I have a "/source-folder/" which contains very large tree of folders and
files.
I've manually copied a set of folders and files from it to a
"/destination-folder-one/" and
copied another set of folders and files to a "/destination-folder-two/".
Now, is there an effective way t
Hi.
Alexander V. Makartsev (12023-11-01):
> I have a "/source-folder/" which contains very large tree of folders and
> files.
The word is “directory”, not “folder”.
> Now, is there an effective way to compare combined contents of two folders
> "/destination-folder-one/" and
> "/destination-folde
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