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How to prevent the creation of .DS_Store files on network volumes
2 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 19th, 2005 in Apple, Filesystem, Mac OS XThis KnowledgeBase article explains how to prevent OS X from creating new .DS_Store files when opening folders on remote volumes mounted using SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV. The creation of .DS_Store files (and more so, ._AppleDouble files which are not covered in this hint) is frequently the source of complaints against Mac users, who often [...]
Case-insensitive filename completion with BASH
0 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 19th, 2005 in Apple, Filesystem, Mac OS X, ShellIf you use bash as your shell and use filename completion a lot, you can get bash to ignore the case of filenames just like HFS does.
Just put this in your ~/.inputrc file:
set completion-ignore-case on
Then, when you type ls /appli in the shell and force filename completion, you’ll get ls /Applications like you ought to.
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