D or d come on

Reasonable and sane behavior of cd. Just get into the habit of always using lower case names for files and directories, that's how our forefathers did it.

Use a shell with decent auto-completion. I have not been irritated by this in years.

You've come from Windows and have brought dangerous expectations.

cd snuts

This is a feature, not a bug

This is completely unrelated to the meme at hand, but the title just reminded me that for a while, Merriam-Webster mistakenly included the word "Dord" to mean density - because an editor misread the entry for "D or d" as an abbreviation of density.

Wikipedia

echo 'set completion-ignore-case On' >> ~/.inputrc

I love how many people brought up the Turkish "I" as if everyone here is on the Unicode steering committee or just got jobs for Turkish facebook.

I, an English speaker, have personally solved the problem by not having a Turkish I in the name of my Downloads directory, or any other directory that I need to cd into on my computer. I'm going to imagine the Turks solve it by painstakingly typing the correct I, or limiting their use of uppercase I's in general.

In fact, researching the actual issue for more than 1 second seemingly shows that Unicode basically created this problem themselves because the two I's are just seperate letters in Turkic languages. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I_in_computing

If you nerds think this is bad try doing Powershell for any amount of time. It is entirely case-insensitive.

$ fuck

Comes in handy quite frequently.

using capital letters in file/directory names on Linux :|

So you type cd D tab and it brings you to Documents

I don't get it... "D" is a complete different character than "d" is.

It's like wondering why "file1" is not opened when I typed in "file2".

alias d="cd ~/Downloads"

Use Zsh or Fish and tab completion.

Doesn't fish basically fix this?

Use zsh and press tab

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You know you prefer the D

I seems that I have triggered something, but keep that going, it’s quality content generation. 😬

OMZ and TAB gang raise up!

Op does not know about $CDPATH and tab completion keke

i renamed my home folders to dl, docs, pics, etc. and use auto-cd (whatever its called) to just type dl instead of cd dl

There are two Linux paradigms that I consider stupid. One is the use of centralized software repositories managed by the distro instead of individual developer maintained installers. The other one is file system case sensibility. They already admitted defeat on the first one with the rise of containerised applications. I wonder how much longer they'll keep the charade on the second one.

Here's how to fix this[+]

Create $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs with

XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/downloads"

You may need to logout/in for things to reread this file.

The full list of keys is:

• XDG_DESKTOP_DIR
• XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR
• XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR
• XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR
• XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR
• XDG_MUSIC_DIR
• XDG_PICTURES_DIR
• XDG_VIDEOS_DIR

+: Since this is Linux, this is a fix for many but not all cases.

Just make a downloads folder if you absolutely want to go there

You can also disable case sensivity in bash

Zoxide and cd down. ;)

cd dow *tab

Don't even have to cd when using completion with fish/zsh. Just type

down[tab]

Fish baby. Fish.

Because you need to cd "path to directory" not cd "name" lol

Or use a nicer alternative like zoxide! :)

"tab"