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Sorry, I don't have such weaknesses and thus cannot relate.
For recursive behavior, tell me if each of these requires
-ror-R(or either) without looking it up (man page,--help, web, etc):Also whoever decided what the tar flags will be needs to be hit with a brick, repeatedly if possible.
without looking it up:
chown -R
cp -r
ls -r
rsync. (idk, i always google this one)
scp -r
zip -r
but why not look it up? you either use a tool and arguments often enough to memorize it, or you don't.
It's not about looking it up or not, it's a challenge to the boasting of the commenter above me in the context of the OP's post.
ah yeah that's fair. but also i kinda agree with that person's response. getting frustrated with linux doesnt mean linux sucks, it means you are learning. ive been using linux for over 20 years, and i still find plenty of things that take me out of my element. and that's a good thing.
um the original meme says "linux is the stupidest thing ever" on the pendulum.
sorry youre in a bad mood. and sorry i contributed to it.
Apologies
But why? Why would you need to do this when we have access to these tools?
Pointless test.
-R -r -R -r -r -r I think
~~I don't know if this is true, but if yes, then -R is a GNU weirdness~~ No wait that doesn't make sense. ls is also GNU.
Very close! -R, either, -R, -r, -r, -r. I typically think "-R except for ssh-related", but zip violates that and I'm sure there are plenty of other counterexamples too. On the topic of ssh, I still can't keep -p or -P straight (ssh vs scp).
Oh god oh damn my kde doesn't tell me that...
Okay I'll give it a whirl:
The actual reason I barely ever find Linux annoying is because my Fedora KDE just does all I need it to pretty much all the time.
With
lsyou can list the contents of directories recursively. Or you can list the contents in reverse order. One of them requires a lowercase "r", one requires uppercase, but which is which? It's not such a big deal that different commands have inconsistent syntax, but even having run Linux as my primary OS since 2004, and before that Unix since 1993, I still have to look these up sometimes.Aight I got cp wrong, which is kinda silly since I knew it for scp but I'm happy with that nonetheless
A couple more challenges:
Every damn time.
I think rsync is lowercase, and maybe zip. The rest I think are uppercase. Complete guess though.
funny I never had this specific issue with recursive behavior. I find it obvious that only rsync and zip are recursive by default, but I'm not sure why.
edit: ah you mean which ones are lowercase or uppercase, that makes more sense.