This is exactly how the german train provider names its ticket pdfs. Why not just “date_origin_destination.pdf”
Likely a unique id so when you send the ticket they don’t have to faf about finding it in their system.
Yeah but they could just keep that ID but add some useful stuff afterwards.
Or add the random stuff after for sorting purposes.
Can’t relate at all. I’m a taxonomy nerd, everything has its own defined subdirectory, the files follow a defined naming convention. Send help.
You‘re good and more efficient. I open 90% of files on Linux, Mac and PC with the search function.
Zeitgeist is your friend.
You’re good, everyone else needs help. I’m pretty sloppy with my PC but my work laptop- subsubsubsubsubdirectories.
Thesis_v5_Final_revised_final_complete_v2_(2).pdf
grep -irl "some text that the file would have"(Obiously only work for text files, but that’s enough to cover 90% of cases for me)
Now we need a /c/grep_irl
That’s a solid windows shame.
Fun fact: I use “git bash shell” over windows’ cmd just because of grep
I don’t know what those flags mean, but from context I think this is a command I’ve needed a bunch of times but haven’t had the time or energy to learn about yet. So thanks! I can’t wait to try it!
- case
insensitive rrecursive- only show fi
lenames
I also like to use:
I(capital i) to skip binary files, if I’m in a folder with heavy images/videos/etcc 3to show 3 lines around the matched text
- case
“Link_Comes_To_Town_SOAD.mp3”
🎶 To save, the Princess Zelda! 🎶
Trying to remember whether I named the most recent copy of my resume shitstink.pdf or hellpiss.pdf
I smash my open palm to my keyboard everytime I’m naming something.
In another news, I am currently looking for a job as my employer fired me for ‘improper variable naming’.
hmmm is the most recent version of this file the one named “newest” or “new (actual)”?
Final Final Final(Real)
spends ten minutes figuring out which one’s the latest
has to save it again
“new (actual)(for real)”
I used to have this problem, but now I go with one of two solutions:
- filename-$(date +%F) (or similar)
- example: notes-2024-12-14.txt
- can be expanded to include further time details if more than one iteration per day is released
- filename-Mk#
- example: product-design-MkII (Or Mk2 if you prefer)
- pretty much infinitely expandable and you always know which is latest
- admittedly I’m pretty sure most systems wouldn’t sort Roman numerals correctly, but I rarely have enough iterations of anything to worry about it
edit: Also, with either, you could pretty easily write a script that would symlink something like
filename-latestto the newest one, but depending on how you’re generating the files in question, that might be less viable.You know how to script and what a symlink is; why aren’t you using git or any other kind of version control instead?
Because I formed these habits in the nineties and 00’s, well before git was a thing; and because nothing I write matters, other than possibly to my employers, in which case I do use (primarily) git … Or other version control. (Believe it or not, I’ve used subversion.)
Most of the documents to which I apply this are things like my resume and DNS server. No one but me will ever care.
Also, I like you both for asking this question and for how you put it.
- filename-$(date +%F) (or similar)
BoogerAids.pdf
Great, now all the other files are gonna make fun of it at File School.
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