R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: on Nostr: I'm going to leave this here with no comment other than "this is why we can't have ...
I'm going to leave this here with no comment other than "this is why we can't have nice things," and, "don't yell at me for using grep, some implementations of find -name are wonky."
[rldane /home/public]$ uname
FreeBSD
[rldane /home/public]$ find /etc 2>&- |grep -c "[A-Z]"
18
[rldane /home/public]$
rldane@tilde.institute$ uname
OpenBSD
rldane@tilde.institute$ find /etc 2>&- |grep -c "[A-Z]"
52
rldane@tilde.institute$
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ uname
NetBSD
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ find /etc 2>&- |grep -c "[A-Z]"
173
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$
~ $ uname
Linux
~ $ find /etc 2>&- |grep -c "[A-Z]"
672
~ $
Ok, fine, here's the punchline:If you feel the need to capitalize stuff in /etc, YOU HAVE LOST THE PLOT.
#Windowzification #Macification
Published at
2025-08-05 18:33:07 UTCEvent JSON
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