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Discussion on: MacOS vs Linux — the cp command will trip you up!

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Ben Sinclair

That's why I don't really like these shells that do tab-completion in a "smart" case way.

It's actually worse than this. Macs keep metadata in files with... the same names as the original. Or at least they did up until a couple of years ago. That used to mean that when someone sent an email with an attachment to someone on a non-Mac, their naive client had a 50/50 chance of detaching the correct file or a zero-byte piece of nonsense.

Don't get me started on __MACOSX directories and the fact that they end up in zip files and repositories and and and...