I recently switched to a mechanical keyboard (with linear switches), and it took me a while to stop mistyping every command
alias ll='ls -l'lson smol screen,ls -lahon big screen.
I alias rm to rm -r for easy folder deleting
UGH that shit.
rm deletes a file. It can’t delete a directory, you have to use
rmdir to delete a directory…as long as there’s nothing in that directory. If there’s anything in the directory, you have to know to use
rm -r to delete a directory and its contents, and no
rmdir -r isn’t right somehow!
On Linux, rm can delete empty directories with -d too, not just with -r.
rmdir is the counterpart to mkdir, which creates empty directories, so of course it can only remove empty directories. After all mkdir can’t create full directories either. There however is rmdir -p as a counterpart to mkdir -p, so if there is something in the directory, you can use that, as long as the something is an empty directory.
alias apt=‘reboot’
sudo apt install slThank me later
I remember people groaning in the CS lab in college when they realized they hadn’t locked their machine before walking away for just long enough to let someone install sl.
They left a root session open? Then they really deserved it.
Oh, maybe it was just the sl binary downloaded somewhere.
Logging in on the high school computers there was a way through some folder tree into the wallpapers of all the teacher accounts. Boy did we have fun with that, they never found out who did it though
I am a menace around unlocked computers. Was at a job and found a colleague who left his computer unlocked and had customer information open in a co working space on his screen. Set his computer language to hebrew before locking it.
Another time in college I found an unlocked computer in a library. Set their profile picture to Chris Chan with an overlay image saying “#ThisIsMyAuthenticSelf #Unafraid”. On this system, the user was not likely to see their own picture, but other people they contact will.
You used to be able to set a web site as a background on windows XP.
I used that to terrible effect
I used to set default webpages on display models in stores to direct competitors sites.
Make sure to add “Defaults insults” to /etc/sudo while you’re at it.
alias dir=‘ls’
doesn’t dir aready do the same as ls?
dir /w perhaps
Get thefuck out, and move on.
fsck
That’s unmaintained pay-respects is a maintained replacement.
Sync (which does have messed up formatting lol
Yeah that looks like an issue with their markdown rendering. I tried to look how they render markdown, but sync is closed source :(
As far as I know, <link> is valid markdown syntax and supported by the official Lemmy UI.
Yeah I know Syncs Markdown hasn’t been correct for Lemmy basically the whole time lol and sadly it seems to be abandoned but I’ve been using it for 10 years :(
Here’s how it looks in Thunder if that helps:
This is just self promo, but you should try my Lemmy/Piefed client. Fully open source and very actively maintained!
Looks really nice! But do you have any debug for logging in? I’m 100% certain that I’m logging in correctly, but it says invalid login every time.
Nice i didn’t know it’s also on codeberg now, why is there a > at the end of the links?
Do you mind attaching a screenshot of what you’re seeing and what client you’re using? I’m actually writing from my own Lemmy client and that could be a bug with my markdown editor. Or it could be how your client renders markdown.
i am using piefed normal website this is what displays there is < at the start of the links and a > in the link i tried your client and it renders fine there
Yeah I reached out to PieFed devs already, thanks. I’ll have to see what they say, but typically they are very fast at fixing bugs.
Seems like something I’d make around the 4th no sleep day. Nice.
The amount of times I’ve spent 3-4 days to write a script that will save me a total of maybe 2hours of my time over a lifetime of use.
A core memory
I forgot this existed
TheFuck is wrong with me
This is so funny and useful
I used this for years to git push new branches to origin until I figured out the new setting that does it automatically
“the this”
Fixed
Yes, but it’s funnier that way
Absolutely, used it on my work computer as well and sometimes had it in my screenshare
Thanks. Leaving a comment to remind me to install this.
Same. This is both useful and hilarious.
tldr is another good tool if you’re just learning cli tools.
thanks for the suggestion - i like that man pages are thorough, but the probability that i need some option that 0,5% of users need is pretty low for now
Exactly.
Man pages are not bad, but often it helps to have a few examples of how people use the tool.
This is in my
~/.aliasrc:)
alias nano='fail; vim'Just install the train app
Nah, I’ve had this in here for +15 years now 😃
Also
gtifor your git fails
You can pry my Steam Locomotive from my cold dead hands!
alias cp='rm -rf'[ $[ $RANDOM % 6] = 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “Click”
Some people want to watch the world burn.
In order to improve your accuracy might I suggest:
alias i='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' alias s='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' alias sl='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' alias ll='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' ...Etcetera. It will make sure you are punished for typos
There’s this classic: Suicide Linux
Make sure to do
alias i='echo <password> | sudo -S rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'For maximum damage, even when you’re not root!
I have all variations of quit and exit in CS2 aliased.
My favorite was “quti” actually quitting Quake 3.
But how else would you run sl, the steam locomotive?
I know you’re joking but:
\slorcommand sl.I’d say “check your shell documentation” but they’re both almost impossible to search for. They both work in Bash. Both skip aliases and shell functions and go straight to shell builtins or things in the
$PATH.There’s also
/usr/bin/slbut you knew that.There’s also
/usr/bin/slbut you knew that.$ ls /usr/bin envI guess I could
env sl?Caught the NixOS user
😳
Dangit. I always forget about
env. Yes, that ought to work.Oh, I was just remarking that I don’t have anything but
envinstalled in there. I wouldn’t be able to runslby its full path unless I go searching for wherever that isWhoa. What distro is it that puts everything in /bin, or at least, practically nothing in /usr/bin?
I use a Debian that actually symlinks /bin to /usr/bin so that they’re one and the same (annoying some purists), but even on systems where they are (or were) used for separate purposes, I thought that each had a significant number of commands in them.
(To paraphrase
man hier, /bin is for necessary tools and /usr/bin is for those that are nice to have.)NixOS, all packages are in
/nix/store/, where each package had its own folder (simplified because there’s the hashing stuff but idk how to explain that)This allows you to have multiple versions of the same package, on the same system, for example.
They’re likely using NixOS. It makes
/usr/bin/envand/bin/shfor compatibility but nothing else goes in those dirs
