• nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
    4·
    18 hours ago

    I, for one, really love HTTP over

    apache2.conf
conf-available/
conf-enabled/
mods-available/
mods-enabled/
sites-available/
sites-enabled/
envvars
magic
ports.conf
sites-available/
sites-enabled/
  • Zink@programming.dev
    91·
    1 day ago

    My preferred alias is

    alias l='ls -latrF'

    It’s the command line version of setting your file browser to list files with details instead of showing a grid of icons.

    Edit: I did install sl thanks to some of the other comments. Beautiful!

    • vaionko@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      1 day ago

      Isn’t pacman -Syu redundant if you run yay -Syu afterwards? Also, just yay is the same as yay -Syu

      • LeFantome@programming.dev
        4·
        1 day ago

        In an alias like this, running pacman first has the advantage that the true Arch packages install completely before any AUR packages that require slow downloads, package compression, or long build steps.

        • vaionko@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          1 day ago

          I’m not sure about yay but paru installs them completely first too, before AUR stuff. It literally runs pacman -Syu

      • slowcakes@programming.dev
        3·
        1 day ago

        Yes but who cares, it works and that is all that matter.

        If you would see my dotfiles, you would see a lot of unnecessary shit, because I don’t write them to be perfect, I write something when I realize this would be nice in the moment, and I just do it as I know how to and just leave it, as long as it works.

        • daggermoon@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          Yes but who cares, it works and that is all that matter.

          This has pretty much been my approach to everything I do lol.

      • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        It can be, but sometimes packages are removed from the official repos, but still available in AUR, only running yay -Syu will install the AUR versions of dependencies that are no longer needed, and can leave you with a bunch of unnecessary packages from AUR.

        If you run pacman -Syu on its own the unnecessary dependencies will be removed and you won’t get the AUR versions, and then yay -Syu will only update things you actually want from AUR.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      13 hours ago

      I’m officially done with Google, I think. Search results for ‘sl’ were nothing useful. But the AI response takes the cake.

      “SL” can refer to several things, but in the context of Ida-Viru County, it most likely refers to Stockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), the public transportation system in the Stockholm area.

      I don’t live in that county, not even close tbh. And even if I did, how would the public transit system in another country, across a sea, be all that relevant to me?

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        13 hours ago

        I now used an actual search engine to find this article and will install it, except I don’t think I’ll see it all that much because I don’t think I’ve ever misspelled ‘ls’ as ‘sl’ :(

    • _stranger_@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      I remember people groaning in the CS lab in college when they realized they hadn’t locked their machine before walking away for just long enough to let someone install sl.

      • Nailbar@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        2 days ago

        They left a root session open? Then they really deserved it.

        Oh, maybe it was just the sl binary downloaded somewhere.

      • sykaster@feddit.nlEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Logging in on the high school computers there was a way through some folder tree into the wallpapers of all the teacher accounts. Boy did we have fun with that, they never found out who did it though

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        I am a menace around unlocked computers. Was at a job and found a colleague who left his computer unlocked and had customer information open in a co working space on his screen. Set his computer language to hebrew before locking it.

        Another time in college I found an unlocked computer in a library. Set their profile picture to Chris Chan with an overlay image saying “#ThisIsMyAuthenticSelf #Unafraid”. On this system, the user was not likely to see their own picture, but other people they contact will.

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          13 hours ago

          Couple of jobs back, the custom was to either set the background image to something disgusting and borderline NSFW, or go on the equivalent of Slack that we used and announce “I’m getting everyone pizza tomorrow” for them. The latter was considered just punishment for a security violation.

          • Jarix@lemmy.world
            9·
            2 days ago

            I used to set default webpages on display models in stores to direct competitors sites.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      23·
      2 days ago

      I know you’re joking but:

      \sl or command sl.

      I’d say “check your shell documentation” but they’re both almost impossible to search for. They both work in Bash. Both skip aliases and shell functions and go straight to shell builtins or things in the $PATH.

      There’s also /usr/bin/sl but you knew that.

          • pivot_root@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 days ago

            Oh, I was just remarking that I don’t have anything but env installed in there. I wouldn’t be able to run sl by its full path unless I go searching for wherever that is

            • palordrolap@fedia.io
              4·
              2 days ago

              Whoa. What distro is it that puts everything in /bin, or at least, practically nothing in /usr/bin?

              I use a Debian that actually symlinks /bin to /usr/bin so that they’re one and the same (annoying some purists), but even on systems where they are (or were) used for separate purposes, I thought that each had a significant number of commands in them.

              (To paraphrase man hier, /bin is for necessary tools and /usr/bin is for those that are nice to have.)

              • qqq@lemmy.world
                4·
                2 days ago

                They’re likely using NixOS. It makes /usr/bin/env and /bin/sh for compatibility but nothing else goes in those dirs

    • _thebrain_@sh.itjust.worksOP
      33·
      2 days ago

      Some people want to watch the world burn.

      In order to improve your accuracy might I suggest:

      alias i='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
alias s='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
alias sl='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
alias ll='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
...

      Etcetera. It will make sure you are punished for typos

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      UGH that shit.

      rm deletes a file. It can’t delete a directory, you have to use

      rmdir to delete a directory…as long as there’s nothing in that directory. If there’s anything in the directory, you have to know to use

      rm -r to delete a directory and its contents, and no

      rmdir -r isn’t right somehow!

      • Matriks404@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        I don’t think there’s any reason to use rmdir unless you write (Ba)sh scripts, and you want to make sure that the directory is indeed empty. Just use rm -r.

        Also note that you can use rmdir -p this/is/some/path to remove all nested directories including the parent (this here). But this will only work if there’s exactly one directory per parent directory, and the last directory doesn’t have any files (including directories). This might be helpful for some scripts.

        rmdir -r isn’t a thing, because that would invalidate the reason this command exists.

      • Opisek@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        Reminds me of a little annoyance I have with cat and ls. Yeah they technically do different things, one is for files and one is for directories. But so often I just find myself wishing I could use one command for both. Like making cat directory act as ls. Maybe I’m the only one who feels that way.

      • setsubyou@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 days ago

        On Linux, rm can delete empty directories with -d too, not just with -r.

        rmdir is the counterpart to mkdir, which creates empty directories, so of course it can only remove empty directories. After all mkdir can’t create full directories either. There however is rmdir -p as a counterpart to mkdir -p, so if there is something in the directory, you can use that, as long as the something is an empty directory.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          51·
          2 days ago

          Yeah it still has a certain “AAAAH! You didn’t say simon says” feel to it when you’re actually trying to get things done. Like imagine if you had to choose a different option from a context menu to delete a folder in a GUI. If there was an option for Remove File and another one placed a little elsewhere in the menu that says Remove Directory.

          I’m still gonna call it an unsanded corner.

          • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            18 hours ago

            I feel like the main reason the distinction exists, is because deleting a whole directory can be potentially catastrophic.

            I looked at Trashy yesterday, which gives you a command trash my_file that just moves the file into the trashcan folder. Well, and that decided to make no distinction between files and directories, which does make sense to me, since you can just restore a deleted directory.

            • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              16 hours ago

              My solution: rm will remove an empty directory, while a full directory will throw either an “are you sure? y/N” or require you to use rm -r. Why have a command whose only job is to remove an empty directory?