This is so sad, alexa rm -rf /* :(
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Dont remove the French :(
echo "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" | cowsay
| lolcat
FYI Magritte was Belgian, not French.
Backslash for subdirectories is unintuitive.
Change my mind!
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.
It's clearly only meant as an escape character. Every other usecase should be forbidden. Oh, that little shrug emote thing is fine tho.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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
The backslash is a descending line showing that the subdirectory is under the parent directory, as it would be in a tree view.
If that's the case we should all be using ┖
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
it's the main reason i prefer ANSI keyboards.
Windows admins when they have to use windows :-/\
*he is shouting.
Nobody quite hates Windows as much as the admins that have to deal with its quirks all the frigging time.
I mostly have had to use windows servers over my career. I get so fucking happy when I can use a Linux server.
This will always piss me off to no end.
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, ↑
I think in powershell you can just use / for everything anyways.
:/
:3
~ $ :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
~ $
3:
:3c
I'm seeing this one more and more and I have no idea what the c is supposed to be.
I always interpret it as legs
It's a hand/paw held up to the mouth to look diabolical.
I thought it was the arms.
I have expert testimony.
Ha, ha. Windows admins don't use the command line, do they?
Why wouldn't they? PowerShell's been a thing for 19 years.