With ls you can list the contents of directories recursively. Or you can list the contents in reverse order. One of them requires a lowercase “r”, one requires uppercase, but which is which? It’s not such a big deal that different commands have inconsistent syntax, but even having run Linux as my primary OS since 2004, and before that Unix since 1993, I still have to look these up sometimes.
ah yeah that’s fair. but also i kinda agree with that person’s response. getting frustrated with linux doesnt mean linux sucks, it means you are learning. ive been using linux for over 20 years, and i still find plenty of things that take me out of my element. and that’s a good thing.
Very close! -R, either, -R, -r, -r, -r. I typically think “-R except for ssh-related”, but zip violates that and I’m sure there are plenty of other counterexamples too. On the topic of ssh, I still can’t keep -p or -P straight (ssh vs scp).
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.
Sorry, I don’t have such weaknesses and thus cannot relate.
For recursive behavior, tell me if each of these requires
-ror-R(or either) without looking it up (man page,--help, web, etc):Also whoever decided what the tar flags will be needs to be hit with a brick, repeatedly if possible.
But why? Why would you need to do this when we have access to these tools?
Pointless test.
Oh god oh damn my kde doesn’t tell me that…
Okay I’ll give it a whirl:
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.
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lsyou can list the contents of directories recursively. Or you can list the contents in reverse order. One of them requires a lowercase “r”, one requires uppercase, but which is which? It’s not such a big deal that different commands have inconsistent syntax, but even having run Linux as my primary OS since 2004, and before that Unix since 1993, I still have to look these up sometimes.Aight I got cp wrong, which is kinda silly since I knew it for scp but I’m happy with that nonetheless
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.
It’s not about looking it up or not, it’s a challenge to the boasting of the commenter above me in the context of the OP’s post.
ah yeah that’s fair. but also i kinda agree with that person’s response. getting frustrated with linux doesnt mean linux sucks, it means you are learning. ive been using linux for over 20 years, and i still find plenty of things that take me out of my element. and that’s a good thing.
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um the original meme says “linux is the stupidest thing ever” on the pendulum.
sorry youre in a bad mood. and sorry i contributed to it.
Apologies
-R -r -R -r -r -r I think
I don’t know if this is true, but if yes, then -R is a GNU weirdnessNo wait that doesn’t make sense. ls is also GNU.Very close! -R, either, -R, -r, -r, -r. I typically think “-R except for ssh-related”, but zip violates that and I’m sure there are plenty of other counterexamples too. On the topic of ssh, I still can’t keep -p or -P straight (ssh vs scp).
Wait if cp is either, then I got it correct, right? Yay me
Yep!
A couple more challenges:
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.