Alright, I’ve read both of you guys’ arguments. You’re both right, but you’re both talking about different things.
Successful try is responding with a literal direct computer-like response for OP’s question. They are adding no additional qualifiers to the specific exact question that was asked, which is to say that the answer to OP’s question is, it does nothing.
Reman, you were saying that anybody who was trying to use this command would obviously add a subject, would put the test or something else to it, would make an adjustment to the command in order to make it work and actually function.
And that is correct in practice, but that doesn’t answer the question that was being asked literally. It answers the question the way a senior programmer would answer the question of a junior programmer.
Successful try’s answer is the answer a computer would give.
So can you both please stop fucking arguing, hug it out, and move on?
Successful try’s answer is the answer a computer would give.
I enjoy giving overly pedantic and technically correct answers as much as the next guy, but doing it on !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world seems like a dick move.
The question is:
rm -rf *or hererm -rf testare different commands.rm is the command, -rf are the flags and “test” is an required argument. So no, they are not different commands.
No, the argument is not required, the command is valid. It’s intentional and a neat feature that
rm -rfalone without a specified file does nothing.See e.g.: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/553741
It does nothing because you used the wrong syntax but also set the flag that suppresses the output of syntax errors …
Imagine someone would asked “What does a toaster do?”
I say “It toasts bread”.
You come in with a picture of bread in a toaster and say “It does nothing”.
I tell you “You have to press the button”.
"You say “oh well, that wasn’t the question, a toaster with the button pressed is basically a different device!”
Insert <Futurama not sure if trolling …> meme.
You should obviously improve your reading skills.
The File argument is optional.
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rm.1.html
Sure. And you should start learning basic bash skills.
Alright, I’ve read both of you guys’ arguments. You’re both right, but you’re both talking about different things.
Successful try is responding with a literal direct computer-like response for OP’s question. They are adding no additional qualifiers to the specific exact question that was asked, which is to say that the answer to OP’s question is, it does nothing.
Reman, you were saying that anybody who was trying to use this command would obviously add a subject, would put the test or something else to it, would make an adjustment to the command in order to make it work and actually function.
And that is correct in practice, but that doesn’t answer the question that was being asked literally. It answers the question the way a senior programmer would answer the question of a junior programmer.
Successful try’s answer is the answer a computer would give.
So can you both please stop fucking arguing, hug it out, and move on?
I enjoy giving overly pedantic and technically correct answers as much as the next guy, but doing it on !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world seems like a dick move.
Watching this back and forth while I’m eating my chips 😅
@remon @bizarroland thanks a lot for enlightening me, and also showing me how exactly to use that particular command without breaking anything.