Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
by gnaritas on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @12:13PM
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As I said, generally. All human languages have inconsistencies, the command line is by far one of the most consistent ones any of us deal with.
Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:45PM
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It may be more consistent, but is not easier - humans are generous with regard to input, they can infer intentions from context. I could type in "please unbork this" to a human and he'd know precisely that he has to a) untargzip it, b) change the directory structure and c) upload it to a shared directory for our team.
Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
by gnaritas on Friday April 24, 2015 @12:48AM
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Welcome to working with computers that can't think; easier is not an option, they can't infer your intentions, so your point is what? Consistency is what matters when working with machines and the command line is a damn consistent language relative to other available options.
Except with cp , -R is the safe one and -r is the dangerous one. And there are tons of little inconsistencies like this.