Also whoever decided what the tar flags will be needs to be hit with a brick, repeatedly if possible.

Oh god oh damn my kde doesn't tell me that...

Okay I'll give it a whirl:

• chown: yes, I think
• cp: no, pretty sure
• ls: what? Like for a tree? For folder size? Idk I say yes because there's nothing recursive to me about standard ls
• rsync: literally no clue have never used it but I'd guess no
• scp: yes pretty confident
• zip: yes also pretty confident

The actual reason I barely ever find Linux annoying is because my Fedora KDE just does all I need it to pretty much all the time.

without looking it up (man page, --help, web, etc):

But why? Why would you need to do this when we have access to these tools?

Pointless test.

without looking it up:

chown -R

cp -r

ls -r

rsync. (idk, i always google this one)

scp -r

zip -r

but why not look it up? you either use a tool and arguments often enough to memorize it, or you don't.

-R -r -R -r -r -r I think

I don't know if this is true, but if yes, then -R is a GNU weirdness No wait that doesn't make sense. ls is also GNU.

A couple more challenges:

• As an unprivileged user, append multiple lines to a file owned by root, using sudo and a here document.
• Redirect both stdout and stderr to a file using Bourne shell syntax (not bash!)

Every damn time.

I think rsync is lowercase, and maybe zip. The rest I think are uppercase. Complete guess though.

funny I never had this specific issue with recursive behavior. I find it obvious that only rsync and zip are recursive by default, but I'm not sure why.

edit: ah you mean which ones are lowercase or uppercase, that makes more sense.