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Re: Suicide Linux

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Post by inamberclad »

lloeki wrote: post #30

> The reaction from the OS is actually rather underwhelming. Somehow related, a coworker at a previous place unmounted some disks on an old AIX production box. It took him a solid minute to realise he had mistakenly unmounted / due to a typo (yes it was possible) as old processes with already opened files were happily serving stuff and only new attempts at opening files were beginning to produce errors. Also, a simil…

Does that last one come from here? http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foo...

Re: Suicide Linux

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Post by legohead »

lloeki wrote: post #30

> The reaction from the OS is actually rather underwhelming. Somehow related, a coworker at a previous place unmounted some disks on an old AIX production box. It took him a solid minute to realise he had mistakenly unmounted / due to a typo (yes it was possible) as old processes with already opened files were happily serving stuff and only new attempts at opening files were beginning to produce errors. Also, a simil…

A friend and I were working on a codebase and he did a similar typo:

rm *>o Been using "make clean" ever since.

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Post by aquamo »

1) death by accident (or rm -rf'ing) is not suicide 2) has the bar been lowered that much now? a simple bash configuration makes a new O/S or distribution?

:-)

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Post by Someone »

moses-palmer wrote: post #28
isostatic wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never type sl, but often type "gerp". I have an alias though.

A friend of mine aliased `git status` `git statsu`; I, being lazier, chose `git st`. Any time saved I lost by not copying his other alias, `c = commit -amSTUFF`...

I must be lazier. I use `gitst` for `git status`. That is 1/6 shorter and IMO not harder to remember.

Re: Suicide Linux

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Post by Jedd »

Bromskloss wrote: post #23

> You know how sometimes if you mistype a filename in Bash, it corrects your spelling and runs the command anyway? What? No, what's that about?

> What? No, what's that about?

From TFA:

"Update 2015-04-18 -- I suppose I should finally clear this up: The autocorrect functionality I originally described here was a feature of the first Linux systems I ever used, so I assumed it was how every Linux system worked by default. Since then I've come to understand that it's a completely optional extra doodad."

Re: Suicide Linux

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Post by kedean »

kingvash wrote: post #10

I've added a counter (of successful commands in a row) to my bashrc. I've seen it as high as 120. function promptCommand() { LAST_STATUS=$? # Set title of window to dir, then add new line to prompt. PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n' if [ $LAST_STATUS -eq 0 ]; then ((successes++)) PS1+='\[\033[1;32m\][$successes]' else successes=0 PS1+='\[\033[1;31m\][0 $LAST_STATUS]' fi PS1+='\[\033[0;32m\] ' PS1+='\w $(date +%H:%M) \$ \[\033[0m…

Man, I hope you don't use grep very often (by default it uses exit code 1 when it doesn't find anything).
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