Timeline for Unix file naming convention
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| S Oct 1, 2024 at 1:49 | history | suggested | Iain4D | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Updated to '-l'. One really wants to count the number of lines (ls to a pipe will put one filename per line). If a file name has a space, '-w' word cound
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| Mar 4, 2024 at 21:15 | comment | added | Jack Wasey | Using hyphens might be better (or worse) when writing systemd units. An hyphen becomes a forward slash when a unit name is systemd-unescaped, whereas, if you actually wanted an hyphen, it must be escaped in the file name. | |
| Jun 21, 2020 at 14:26 | comment | added | Ruslan |
A few examples of camelCase/PascalCase I found on my system: config files for GeoIP and PackageKit, config and libraries from ImageMagick, config paths for LessTif, glibc component libBrokenLocale.so.
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| Jun 29, 2017 at 14:21 | history | edited | Stéphane Chazelas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2017 at 5:14 | comment | added | Wildcard |
+1 for the references. (@Proletariat, the ls output from /usr/bin is a reference. This is a question about conventions.)
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| Mar 7, 2016 at 16:21 | comment | added | Proletariat | Thanks. Do you have any references for these conventions? | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 17:31 | comment | added | Mikel | @Hugo Yes. The above shows minus (409) vs underscore (178). | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 9:26 | comment | added | Hugo | So the hyphen/minus/dash is more common that the underscore. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 17:13 | comment | added | Depado |
The . char can also be used to rotate things, not only to specify an extension. For example my.log my.log.1 my.log.2.gz.
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| Feb 13, 2011 at 22:07 | history | edited | Mikel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 13, 2011 at 21:57 | history | edited | Mikel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 13, 2011 at 21:49 | history | answered | Mikel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |