please remove the French language pack
please rm -fr /*Some people just wanna see the world burn
For people that don’t get the joke: this messes up your system
If you’re out of the loop: this is part of the joke tricking people into dedicating precious hard drive space to an unnecessary language pack.
Now a days you have add —no-preserve root after the laggy French pack to fully remove it.
Not with the asterisk! The shell automatically expands the asterisk before sending the args to rm, removing every French language pack in your root directory.
Or do the opposite for…relief
Fucking mv doc doc1
Fucking shutdown
fucking touch my-docplease touch my-doc🥺👉👈I thought for sure, for sure this was bullshit. For sure Linux doesn’t have a touch command. What could it possibly do.?
Changing timestamps and creating empty files…
Of course, that makes so much sense. 🤔
It does make sense! When you modify a file, you do “things” on it, you write it. So the minimum you can possibly do to a file to modify it, is “to poke it”: to touch it.
I mean I’m sure that’s the logic or something but…
Man it just feels wrong. Like the sonic hedgehog gene feels wrong. You know?
I wonder if you could make it sass you every so often to complete the effect.
Fucking shutdown
Chill my man. I’m on it.
Fuck will always be my alias to run sudo with the last command
There’s a project that automatically corrects common errors with your last command as well with the same name.
It sounds fun and “magic” but it is hella scary to blindly run some “fixed” command
I believe it does take confirmation via the ENTER key.
It does! It’s usually pretty good at figuring it ont to. Though I only use it with non-destructive commands
Shorthand that works anywhere:
sudo !!
please killallI see…
Make sure to combine it with
Disallow /harm/to/humans
This from the OS that made me have to do a search for “how to kill children”.
wasn’t that Windows?
don’t make me watch the task manager video again …
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alias alias='alias'I’m scared of you
I might actually do this, it seems nice.
suddenly makes the xkcd much more wholesome too
What it feels like using windows.
“Please shutdown?”
“No, forced update time.”
“Please uninstall this browser and use this other instead?”
“No.”
I aint typing out ‘please’, I will compromise on
alias plz='sudo'shit, that’s a radical move
alias ty='exit'
please apt install clangUser isn't in polite boy list. This incident will be reported.please rm -rf /
side note: My all-time favorite linux utility is “fuck”. When you make a mistake and get a command line error, you type the word fuck and it looks at what you previously typed and the error message, and tries to figure out your mistake and what you should have typed instead. Then it types that in for you. If it’s correct all you have to do is hit Enter. Or you can edit first, but it’s usually right. Amazing tool, and doesn’t even use AI, just a list of common errors. It’s been around for years and years. Its mere existence really captures the whole culture of linux IMO.
See, I couldn’t bring myself to type that; I think I’d have to alias it to ‘bother’.
Its name is dangerously close to fsck. Can you fuck fsck?
That’s the beauty of it - you can!
“Would you Kindly …”
please shutdown
THIS INCIDENT WILL BE REPORTED.
It’s a longer command. I wanna get shit done. I’m aliasing commands to make them shorter, not longer. But it does seem like it’d be a little friendlier.
sudo make me a sandwich
