Re:Ship Something Every Day
by exe34 on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @01:10AM
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me helping a newbie:
"type find...."
him: presses enter
me: "no, don't just press enter, I wasn't done yet, did I say press enter?! oh well, type find dot slash...."
him: presses enter
me: "okay please take your hands off the keyboard! I'll type it for you in the chat."
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I once TA’d an intro to unix class where I had to help a lot of students this way.
I would vocalize e.g. “find -name '*png'” as “find space hyphen name space single-quote asterisk png single-quote enter”.
I found that saying it exactly like that had the highest success rate. I never wanted to type it for them because the point of the class was to get familiar with unix and the shell.