Stop spamming other mailing lists

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Fri Dec 21 20:38:12 UTC 2018


PS: If you really want to help "newbies", consider to provide
real world pitfalls.

For example, somebody wants to remove a root privileged tree inside
of /tmp.

$ sudo rm -rI /tmp/ some_tree_inside_tmp/
                   ^by accident there could be a typo, such as an
                   unwanted space...
rm: remove 2 arguments recursively? n
$ sudo rm -rI /tmp/some_tree_inside_tmp/
rm: remove 1 argument recursively? y

...the _interactive_ options of shell commands could help to avoid such
mistakes.

I seriously doubt that a moderator would refuse such informative help
for beginners.





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