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abcdqfr@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

What's your mnemonic for pwd?- OMG it means print working directory. My mind instantly goes to password every time. I had to reach puddle wuv dud levels of autism before thinking otherwise. I shame my

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What's your mnemonic for pwd?- OMG it means print working directory. My mind instantly goes to password every time. I had to reach puddle wuv dud levels of autism before thinking otherwise. I shame my

abcdqfr@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5 days ago
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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    On a side note:
    I hate it that the password-change command is minimally abbreviated to “passwd”.
    Come on, making it much more complicated to remember and saving just two freakin letters??

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      “umount” is worse

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        But the only command that I have to look up every damn time, although it has no abbreviation at all, is useradd.
        Oh no, wait, I mean adduser!
        … No, wait again… aah…

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          Next update changes it to usadder as a compromise. Supposedly, it’s short for “user adder” but we all know it’s to make “[you] sadder”.

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          Ah, damn it! I’ll look it up next time. *sudo vim /etc/passwd*

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            Surely visudo, I hope

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        First time I have to use it, the spelling really confused me. Wrote unmount and didn’t understand why it didn’t work.

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          I guess this also must be an additional layer of hellfire for dyslexics…

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      They did boatloads of horrific things to save bytes. They radix encoded strings, created the y2k and 2038 problems, normalized redirecting output to /dev/null, passed raw text blocks through a fifo file buffer rather than properly tagged data, ditched proper exception handling and a bunch more listed in the Unix Hater’s Handbook

      https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

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        Now this looks like an interesting read. Thanks!

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      I SAID, pass the wood

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      It’s the passw daemon

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      making it much more complicated to remember

      Do you not tab-complete your commands? I mean, my terminal usage for anything beyond very short commands consists of <first few letters of command> <TAB>.

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        Do you not tab-complete your commands?

        Sure I do (although nowadays Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me), but as a decent touch-typist I am often faster directly typing short commands, like passwor… damn, I mean: passwd ;-)

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          Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me

          If you haven’t, give fzf a try. Is like Ctrl+r in asteroids

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    My kryptonite is du which reports disk usage, and df which reports disk file size, or no, wait, du is file size and df is disk usage.

    Most of the time I can only remember whichever one I don’t need at the moment and futilely hope that its man page will mention the other (which it doesn’t).

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      I’m always like “du shows disk usage of files, and df shows how much of disk is free”.

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      I just try them both every time

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    puh-wuh-duh

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    pwned

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    pizza with dick is how i reamber it

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    I thought it meant p-word. As in “wet ass p-word”

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    Just make an alias with a more convenient name.

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      alias ‘where_the_fuck_am_i’=“pwd”

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        alias who_the_fuck_am_i='whoami'

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          alias what_the_hell_is_going_on='btop'

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            alias who_the_fuck_is_that=finger

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              alias finger_me='finger $USER'

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                What the hell is wrong with all of you? Command names obviously use - and not _

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                  alias _=‘-’

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                  alias too_late='echo 😛'

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                @cupcakezealot @DrWorm https://www.reddit.com/r/meirl/comments/1i8dre3/meirl/

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      Unfortunately all the 2, 3 and 4 letter combinations are used as an alias for when i mistype “ls”

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    I always called it Present Working Directory but apparently it’s Print

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      Same, mind blown

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    I pronounce it pwood.

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      Pwud here

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    I use muscle memory.

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