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[–] quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

not really

You can easily escape spaces with \ and my modern shell (fish) suggests and completes filenames for me anyway, so i don't have to type more than the first word in more than 90% of cases.

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[–] ouch@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Typing \ in those cases instead of _ is super annoying.

In my keyboard layout backspace is behind altgr.

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[–] quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

the standard keyboard layouts (qwerty, qwertz, etc.) are mostly trash

are there any good alternative keyboard layouts for your native language (finnish if im not mistaken)?

In Germany there is the Neo Family: Neo{,2}, NeoQwert{y,z}, Bone, Mine, ... as well as offsprings of that, but I guess you need your diacritics: å ä and ö. While Neo layouts have these diacritics available, they are made for german, so only ä ö and ü are easily accessible.

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[–] ouch@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Finnish indeed. I'm not aware of any alternative layouts. å is completely unnecessary for finnish, so maybe the layouts you mentioned could work.

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Now do it with a for loop on every file in a dir with thousands of files

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[–] quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

for i in path/to/dir/*
  dosomething_with_my_file $i
end

where is the problem? fish shell doesn't split arguments at spaces

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

$IFS splits files at spaces

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[–] quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

IFS is a special shell variable in bash, ksh and POSIX shells that lets you configure how the shell splits words

by default it splits at spaces tabs and newlines

I use fish a shell that is intentionally not POSIX compatible. While it borrows some principles from Bash and POSIX, it simplifies a lot of things and removes most footguns. Words are split at new lines in fish, which admittedly can also cause troubles, but not nearly as often as in bash and other POSIXy shells.

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