Ya....that's handy...though I felt totally lost the other day when I was on a box without a tab-completing shell. Worse, because I was typing on a netbook, where I'm prone to making typos with my long fingers. Keep meaning to get a bigger netbook.... though seems strange to still call a 13" computer with no optical drive a netbook....to go along with my 12.1" notebook (though battery life should be much better.)
----- Original Message ----- > On 14.05.11 21:18, Josh Smift wrote: > > YD> USE COMMAND LINE HISTORY!!! > > YD> > > YD> Write the command exactly as you would with the rm, but use ls > > YD> instead. Verify that what you see is what you want to be delete. > > > > This is pretty good advice, and would defend against my favorite > > example, > > 'sudo rm -rf / var/log/junk, where a space slips in at the wrong > > place. > > I've gotten into a habit of tab-completing every file and directory, > always. If it doesn't complete, it doesn't exist or it warns me that I > have to be extra careful because i'm using sudo to remove the > directory > not readable to normal user. -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
