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Just use CLI! (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by madthumbs to c/linuxsucks
 

In addition to commands that can wipe your drive (and possibly your mainboard), screw up things like fstab and boot to tty, there's also the issue of people using sudo + text editor to edit files.

The proper way is using sudoedit.

Sudoedit uses a temporary file to make changes, so it's not edited by the root user reducing the risk of accidental damage to critical files. If something goes wrong during editing, the original file remains intact. It also maintains the permissions of the edited file.

New Linux users aren't likely to know better, so the advice of 'just use CLI' is pretty ignorant.

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[–] mEEGal 4 points 2 weeks ago

wuuuuuuuut

thanks for the heads up !

[–] okwhateverdude 3 points 2 weeks ago

this is hilarious. I had to try it and for once the internet didn't lie to me.

shell globbing is so dangerous lol. If you're paranoid, adding -- to rm makes sure the contents of the glob aren't interpreted as flags

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  1. Why did that command not delete -rf?
  2. What about deleting Stuff was an accident? It looks like that was the intention.
[–] madthumbs -1 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't look closely at the CLI to see if it totally applied or not. Just threw a somehwat related image I had on hand to catch attention to the article.

Thanks for pointing it out.