Nah, I've had this in here for +15 years now 😃

Also gti for your git fails

alias emacs='fail; vim'

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.

• https://github.com/iffse/pay-respects
• https://codeberg.org/iff/pay-respects

Yes, but it's funnier that way

"the this"

Same. This is both useful and hilarious.

tldr is another good tool if you're just learning cli tools.

There's also /usr/bin/sl but you knew that.

$ ls /usr/bin
env

I guess I could env sl?

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.

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 now used an actual search engine to find this article and will install it, except I don't think I'll see it all that much because I don't think I've ever misspelled 'ls' as 'sl' :(

Make sure to do

alias i='echo <password> | sudo -S rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'

For maximum damage, even when you're not root!

There's this classic: Suicide Linux

It gets better. PowerShell 5, which is still the default installation on Windows 11, aliases curl and wget to Invoke-WebRequest. The fucked-up part is that Win11 includes the real curl too, but the alias shadows it, and you have to use curl.exe. The even more fucked-up part is that Invoke-WebRequest still uses Internet Explorer to parse the result, and will panic if -UseBasicParsing is not passed every time, or IE isn't installed and initialized.

I used to develop applications in PowerShell. I still wear the mental scars.

And curl, and several others

I have a simple way of getting around that - I only make directories in the GUI.

CTRL+L and clear command do two different things (at least when using Bash on Debian):

• CTRL+L scrolls the terminal output one screen so you don't see your previous output, unless you scroll up;
• clear does indeed clear terminal output completely, and your previous command history is available only through the history command.

If you want CTRL+L to clear your screen completely you can add following to the .bashrc (or other file that is sourced when starting Bash, e.g. .bash_bindings):

bind -x '"\C-l":clear'

Note that it might not work if you use Vi mode inside Bash, but who does that.

I often use clear when I need to rerun the same command and want to see the output in isolation each time, so I might run clear && ./build.sh and then just press the up arrow and run it again.

But I think, many people are also just not aware of the keyboard shortcut or don't care to remember it, since they don't use it often and clear is easy enough to guess.

Reminds me of a little annoyance I have with cat and ls. Yeah they technically do different things, one is for files and one is for directories. But so often I just find myself wishing I could use one command for both. Like making cat directory act as ls. Maybe I'm the only one who feels that way.

I don't think there's any reason to use rmdir unless you write (Ba)sh scripts, and you want to make sure that the directory is indeed empty. Just use rm -r.

Also note that you can use rmdir -p this/is/some/path to remove all nested directories including the parent (this here). But this will only work if there's exactly one directory per parent directory, and the last directory doesn't have any files (including directories). This might be helpful for some scripts.

rmdir -r isn't a thing, because that would invalidate the reason this command exists.

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.

It is not like he put the f on it :)

Well, ackshually...

Eh, I can't be bothered looking it up, but knot theory in mathematics, we're at like 56M combinations or some insane number possibly many millions above or below that.

It's a weirdly interesting area of mathematics lol