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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 07:20:25PM -0400, Dave Vandervies wrote:
> Keep in mind that "." is a file/directory starting with a '.' in your
> home directory.
Why? What use is it? I never use it. Well, unless you count using it to
invoke programs. Is it a symlink? My shell's highlighting doesn't think so;
it's in the blue that claims it's a directory. So when I do invoke programs,
I have to go through this invisible yes-it's-a-directory-no-it's-a-symlink
to do it, which is retarded. No, I can't suggest something better. I reserve
the right to call things retarded, KTHX, HAND.
And then there's "..", which is more of the same. When I do "cd .." I'm
actually changing directory /into/ a directory, which means I should be going
/down/ the directory tree. And yet the net effect is that I move up. Call me
a stupid-head if you like, but that is not intuitive.
On a side note, since both start with a ".", that means they should be hidden.
Yet for some reason scads of applications display both "." and ".." in "open
file" dialog boxes. What the fuck is the point of giving me something I can
double-click on and does nothing at all?
> Do you really want to see all the stuff that starts with '.' every time
> you use *? Isn't avoiding that the whole point of the .name convention?
Yes, I do; I expect * to match everything. I had always been under the
impression that the output from 'ls' was not the same as an explicit 'ls *'.
Evidently it's not; I can add it, bash, or both to my list of retarded
software.
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