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Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola?

From vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola?
Date 2025-01-24 12:06 +0000
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:47:56 -0500, DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca>
wrote in <vmtkqq$1lsjt$3@dont-email.me>:

> On 1/22/2025 8:24 PM, vallor wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:17:16 -0500, DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca>
>> wrote in <vmrn8s$175ev$1@dont-email.me>:
>> 
>>> On 1/22/2025 2:59 PM, vallor wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:36:24 -0500, DFS
>>>> <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca>
>>>> wrote in <vmraak$148jk$1@dont-email.me>:
>>>>
>>>>> A tree command against my D: drive (personal/data/working) shows
>>>>> 63989 folders, indicating superior file organization.
>>>>
>>>> 62776730 files in 6832622 directories
>>>
>>>
>>> Ho Lee Fuk!  You sure do love your porn clips.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have 1,365,294 files in 63,989 folders.
>> 
>> Why do you call them "folders"?  That's Mac speak.
> 
> 
> Very Feebish of you.
> 
> Ever since the astounding OS takeover by Win95, this type of "folder vs
> directory" insecurity is VERY common in Unix/Linux dweebs.
> 
> But...
> 
> *  'folder' in computing isn't a Unix or Apple or MS creation.  It dates
>      back to the mid 1950s (according to wikipedia).
> 
> *  the word and connotation of 'folder' is a much better metaphor
>     than 'directory' for a structure that contains documents and/or
>     other folders/directories.
> 
> *  the file open icon on virtually all Linux apps is a picture of a
>     folder.
> 
> *  https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/navigating-filesystem-linux-terminal
> 
>     uses them interchangeably, as they should
> 
> *  between the two of us, only your household owns or uses Macs
> 
> 
> pwned.  Now git back in your folder.

Right.  And as everyone knows, the command in windows
to list a "folder" is "fold"[*].

Oh wait, it's "dir".  What does _that_ mean, hmmmmm?

Seriously though, I wasn't being very serious.

[*] BTW, there _is_ a fold(1) command in Unix, but it
does something completely different -- it word-wraps text.

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Do I have the biggest tree on cola? DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-22 12:36 -0500
  Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-22 17:59 +0000
  Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-22 18:42 +0000
  Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-22 19:59 +0000
    Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-22 20:21 +0000
    Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-22 16:17 -0500
      Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-23 01:24 +0000
        Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-22 20:30 -0500
          Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-22 22:55 -0500
            Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-23 11:12 +0000
              Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 15:04 -0600
              Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 21:10 +0000
            Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-24 13:04 +0000
        Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-23 09:47 -0500
          Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-24 12:06 +0000
            Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-24 08:57 -0500
              Re: Do I have the biggest tree on cola? Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-26 12:45 +0000

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