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    [–] saturn57@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    mkdir has been real quiet since this dropped

    [–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

    "Right click - create new folder" in nautilus hasn't said anything in years

    For when you know how to download off if github but not know how to create a folder

    [–] wabafee@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I would prefer PPA for this or through flatpak.

    [–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    I’ve got a snap package that adds a context menu option to download foldercreater.zip to any directory you right click in. It also steals your crypto wallets.

    [–] wabafee@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago
    [–] Saapas@piefed.zip 138 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    That's cool but I want this rewritten in memory safe Rust

    [–] fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)
    [–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago

    Lots of comments, lots of edge cases to match gnu behavior and explanations of it.

    β€œLong” code isn’t bad

    [–] fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    The GNU Coreutils version is 319 lines.

    https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src%2Fmkdir.c

    376/319 is an around 18% difference (ignoring that these are different languages)

    EDIT: i misread the result XD

    [–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    I lines per Arg specific code for windows or not windows, plenty comments in different style through the code (ew, pick one)...

    It seems to do a bunch of checks for AppArmor or SELinux and so....

    Yah idk, some questionable formatting of code.

    [–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    don't forget to regularly empty the recycling bins. they are the ones named /bin

    [–] excral@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago

    Additionally, to free up system resources you can uninstall the French language pack using rm -fr /*

    [–] hemmes@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It should work on bad distros as well!

    [–] hanke@feddit.nu 12 points 1 day ago

    Yeah that's the line that got me as well πŸ˜„

    [–] underscores@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

    they're on pop-os ... thinking emoji

    [–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It’s not a folder it’s a directory

    [–] definitely_AI@feddit.online 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] flameleaf@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Its inodes all the way down

    [–] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    All this time, it was all inodes???

    [–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

    Always has been

    [–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Right? You can't fold a directory.

    yes but I'd love to direct a foldy. toldy folds

    [–] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Honestly, only criticism is that this will give a static version. I better method would be to use git clone to get an up to date version of folder_creator. This could leave some lingering git files, so be sure to run rm -rf ~/.* to get rid of anything unexpected and hidden away by git.

    [–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    Really? And I've been asking my AI to do it this whole time!

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    [–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 day ago

    I love PopOS ARCH Linux

    [–] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

    Hey, I'm a noob, I'm getting this weird folder not created message.

    [–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Directions unclear. Deleted /etc

    [–] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Like etcetera? That sounds like that's just temp files and stuff.

    [–] definitely_AI@feddit.online 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    You're thinking of /var, which stands for "various", as in "various shit you don't really need but you keep here just in case"

    [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

    The junk drawer of linux

    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    While you're at it, clean your trash bin with sudo rm -rf /bin

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

    Dang usrmerge, hiding my trash bin inside my user directory

    [–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Bro, what about the handy script:

    #!/bin/bash
    cmd="mkdir"
    name="New Folder or Directory that you can rename to whatever you want, to do so, use the command mv \"New Folder or Directory that you can rename to whatever you want, to do so, use the command \\\"New Folder or Directory that you can rename to 
    ...
    

    well, you get the idea.

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    [–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I just do the typical

    sh -c "$(sudo find / -name 'mkdir' | grep -o 'mkdir' | head -n 1) '$(echo newDir)'"

    but to each their own I guess.

    [–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    git clone https://github.com/ruemination/folder_creator ./New\ Folder && cd ./New\ Folder/ && rm -rf ./*
    

    Thanks for the heads up on the rm -rf ./*. It was so fucking cluttered.

    [–] otacon239@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    How do I know how cool they are? Their bash doesn’t even open with a fastfetch command!

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    [–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    probably wont work because they forgot to sudo apt update

    this guy doesn't use arch btw

    I dunno man, that’s a lot of terminal.

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