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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

-H for Hard drive to delete, -h is help

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

-H is for Hforce

[–] hperrin 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Which assumes you also wanted to catch fire because you didn't set --halt-without-catching-fire

[–] droans 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do developers get hard-ons for using nonstandard flags?

Use -h, --help. None of this "no hyphen" bullshit or using the plus sign or a different flag like --info

[–] hperrin 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
sudo shutdown -h now

It makes sense in context. Whaddya gonna do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

-H is for "hell no just uninstall"

Look, if they can't stick to established convention and they're not gnu (and thus magically excusably arrogant as fuck because #stallman), then you just know they'll be somehow dragging in remote libraries or something equally as fuckwitted; so just remove it and live your life.