Also, with a little imagination, if you interpret it as a fraction, you'd have the topdir as a common denominator like this:
topdir\subdir1, topdir\subdir2
You would also have to read it from right to left for it to make sense though:
subdir1/topdir, subdir2/topdir
But considering this approach, when writing the parts of the fraction below each other, the topdir is below the subdir (like a real tree growing from the ground lol). The "subdir is under topdir" analogy gets lost, which is my main problem with the backslash approach:
Sometimes my brain just trips on itself and I superposition both as being correct for whichever terminal I'm working with (throw MacOS in there too), I stare at it blankly for a few seconds before remembering the ultimate CLI tool, ↑
~ $ :3
No command :3 found, did you mean:
Command i3 in package i3 from the x11-repo repository
Command i3 in package i3-gaps from the x11-repo repository
Command h3 in package libuber-h3
Command z3 in package z3
~ $
35 Comments
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 67 pts · 323d
This is so sad, alexa
rm -rf /*:(Wutchilli@feddit.org · 38 pts · 323d
Dont remove the French :(
Evkob@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 323d
railwhale@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 322d
| lolcathayvan@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 322d
FYI Magritte was Belgian, not French.
passepartout@feddit.org · 36 pts · 323d
Backslash for subdirectories is unintuitive.
Change my mind!
glimse@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 323d
The little subdirectory is leaning against the big directory :)
If you delete the little subdirectory, the big directory is unaffected (because it's a heartless bitch)
But if you delete the big directory, the little directory falls over and dies :(
I don't really think either is unintuitive, I just made it up.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 22 pts · 323d
It's clearly only meant as an escape character. Every other usecase should be forbidden. Oh, that little shrug emote thing is fine tho.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 323d
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
turbowafflz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 323d
Better than RISC OS paths that use colons, and far better than VMS paths that look like this
DENVER::DKA100:[RD.PROJECTS.SAMBA]SETUP.COM;15davidgro@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 323d
The backslash is a descending line showing that the subdirectory is under the parent directory, as it would be in a tree view.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 323d
If that's the case we should all be using ┖
passepartout@feddit.org · 3 pts · 323d
That's a good one 🕊️
So they come together like this:
Also, with a little imagination, if you interpret it as a fraction, you'd have the topdir as a common denominator like this:
You would also have to read it from right to left for it to make sense though:
But considering this approach, when writing the parts of the fraction below each other, the topdir is below the subdir (like a real tree growing from the ground lol). The "subdir is under topdir" analogy gets lost, which is my main problem with the backslash approach:
=>
relativestranger@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 323d
it's the main reason i prefer ANSI keyboards.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 323d
Windows admins when they have to use windows :-/\
*he is shouting.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 322d
Nobody quite hates Windows as much as the admins that have to deal with its quirks all the frigging time.
Awkwardparticle@programming.dev · 3 pts · 322d
I mostly have had to use windows servers over my career. I get so fucking happy when I can use a Linux server.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 323d
https://slashdir.net/
jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 323d
Interesting read, thanks.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 323d
This will always piss me off to no end.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d
Sometimes my brain just trips on itself and I superposition both as being correct for whichever terminal I'm working with (throw MacOS in there too), I stare at it blankly for a few seconds before remembering the ultimate CLI tool, ↑
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 322d
I think in powershell you can just use / for everything anyways.
otter@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 323d
:/
Klear@quokk.au · 9 pts · 323d
:3
jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 323d
Klear@quokk.au · 7 pts · 323d
3:
jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 323d
:3c
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 323d
I'm seeing this one more and more and I have no idea what the c is supposed to be.
brachypelmide@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 323d
I always interpret it as legs
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 323d
It's a hand/paw held up to the mouth to look diabolical.
OozingPositron@feddit.cl · 2 pts · 323d
I thought it was the arms.
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 322d
I have expert testimony.
lime@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 323d
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 322d
Ha, ha. Windows admins don't use the command line, do they?
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 322d
Why wouldn't they? PowerShell's been a thing for 19 years.