Admins

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TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 67 pts · 323d (4 replies)

This is so sad, alexa rm -rf /* :(

Wutchilli@feddit.org · 38 pts · 323d (3 replies)

Dont remove the French :(

Evkob@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 323d (2 replies)
echo "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" | cowsay
railwhale@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 322d

| lolcat

hayvan@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 322d

FYI Magritte was Belgian, not French.

passepartout@feddit.org · 36 pts · 323d (8 replies)

Backslash for subdirectories is unintuitive.

Change my mind!

glimse@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 323d

The little subdirectory is leaning against the big directory :)

If you delete the little subdirectory, the big directory is unaffected (because it's a heartless bitch)

But if you delete the big directory, the little directory falls over and dies :(

I don't really think either is unintuitive, I just made it up.

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 22 pts · 323d (1 reply)

It's clearly only meant as an escape character. Every other usecase should be forbidden. Oh, that little shrug emote thing is fine tho.

FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 323d

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

turbowafflz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 323d

Better than RISC OS paths that use colons, and far better than VMS paths that look like this DENVER::DKA100:[RD.PROJECTS.SAMBA]SETUP.COM;15

davidgro@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 323d (2 replies)

The backslash is a descending line showing that the subdirectory is under the parent directory, as it would be in a tree view.

NickwithaC@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 323d

If that's the case we should all be using ┖

passepartout@feddit.org · 3 pts · 323d

That's a good one 🕊️

So they come together like this:

topdir
   |
subdir

Also, with a little imagination, if you interpret it as a fraction, you'd have the topdir as a common denominator like this:

topdir\subdir1, topdir\subdir2

You would also have to read it from right to left for it to make sense though:

subdir1/topdir, subdir2/topdir

But considering this approach, when writing the parts of the fraction below each other, the topdir is below the subdir (like a real tree growing from the ground lol). The "subdir is under topdir" analogy gets lost, which is my main problem with the backslash approach:

topdir\subdir

=>

subdir
---
topdir
relativestranger@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 323d

it's the main reason i prefer ANSI keyboards.

SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 323d (2 replies)

Windows admins when they have to use windows :-/\

*he is shouting.

MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 322d (1 reply)

Nobody quite hates Windows as much as the admins that have to deal with its quirks all the frigging time.

Awkwardparticle@programming.dev · 3 pts · 322d

I mostly have had to use windows servers over my career. I get so fucking happy when I can use a Linux server.

Evotech@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 323d (1 reply)
jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 323d

Interesting read, thanks.

thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 323d (2 replies)

This will always piss me off to no end.

BanMe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d

Sometimes my brain just trips on itself and I superposition both as being correct for whichever terminal I'm working with (throw MacOS in there too), I stare at it blankly for a few seconds before remembering the ultimate CLI tool, ↑

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 322d

I think in powershell you can just use / for everything anyways.

otter@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 323d

:/

Klear@quokk.au · 9 pts · 323d (9 replies)

:3

jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 323d (8 replies)
~ $ :3
No command :3 found, did you mean:
 Command i3 in package i3 from the x11-repo repository
 Command i3 in package i3-gaps from the x11-repo repository
 Command h3 in package libuber-h3
 Command z3 in package z3
~ $
Klear@quokk.au · 7 pts · 323d (7 replies)

3:

jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 323d (6 replies)

:3c

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 323d (5 replies)

I'm seeing this one more and more and I have no idea what the c is supposed to be.

brachypelmide@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 323d

I always interpret it as legs

Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 323d (2 replies)

It's a hand/paw held up to the mouth to look diabolical.

OozingPositron@feddit.cl · 2 pts · 323d (1 reply)

I thought it was the arms.

Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 322d

I have expert testimony.

lime@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 323d

Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 322d (1 reply)

Ha, ha. Windows admins don't use the command line, do they?

Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 322d

Why wouldn't they? PowerShell's been a thing for 19 years.