[elija]

Originally Posted by jayd512

Oh well... What can ya do?

You can stop cleaning up after them. It's amazing how quickly you can get
people to change their ways with that one simple act.

I speak as one who has on occasion experienced the gut wrenching sinking
feeling of stepping in my own stupidity. I am sure that others too have asked
the question "Why oh Why couldn't you have asked if I was really, really sure?"

[Freston]

Oh yeah, we all made that mistake at one point or another. The difference between that movie Manchunian posted and my experience is that I never got output.

It dawned on me what I had done wrong when file after file was 'not found'...

...looking back in bash history I saw I typed one space too many. It was one space that killed my entire /home partition. My motto since that day: read twice, enter once

[Manchunian]

.looking back in bash history I saw I typed one space too many.

Ah yes, this is so easily done! I try to avoid this by dragging and dropping what I want to delete into the terminal window - I don't trust myself not to add a space or spell something wrongly!

[arderydd]

I thought we had this warning as a sticky somewhere in one of the threads, or it was atleast being discussed to be made into a sticky

[Manchunian]

Even if it is a sticky, it doesn't do any harm bringing this point up again. I think newbies need constant reminders that when you're root in Unix-type systems you really have the power of God over your computer. Only a couple of days ago (here), we had someone telling us that he logs onto his computer as root, simply because it saves time.

[Lich]

Originally Posted by arderydd

I thought we had this warning as a sticky somewhere in one of the threads, or it was atleast being discussed to be made into a sticky

I can't help but wonder why this would matter? I mean this in the most respectful and friendly way, but why do you concern yourself with whether or not this has been discussed before? I'm sure close to half of the posts here are redundant to some extent, but who cares? If you're a newbie to this forum, for example, are you going to search for a post that you don't even know exists that contains advice you may need to hear? Of course not, because you don't even know you should be looking for it in the first place. So what harm is there in bringing it up from time to time?

Hugs and kisses.

Your friend,
Lich

[questio verum]

Originally Posted by Manchunian

...I don't trust myself not to add a space or spell something wrongly!

Funny... I recently found myself at a loss as to why my perceived inputs while working in OpenBSD didn't equal my actual outputs on the screen. Turned out the usb keyboard I was using was adding it's own ancilliary input. I switched to a ps2 keyboard and the problem went away. Odd.

[arderydd]

I don't seem any harm in it, I wasn't complaining. I just thought i recall a same thread on this being discussed not long ago on here. I don't mind that anyone is bringing it up again, it helps people who are new to using linux , i was simply wondering. Anyway if it where a sticky it's one of the more likely things people will read because it's always at the very top of the threads

[bigtomrodney]

Originally Posted by Manchunian

Ah yes, this is so easily done! I try to avoid this by dragging and dropping what I want to delete into the terminal window - I don't trust myself not to add a space or spell something wrongly!

I TAB out everything file I want to work on. Apart from saving time it also verifies that the files exists and it is formatted correctly.

Typing cd De<TAB> will change into cd Desktop without typing. Also if there are spaces it will ensure that the correct\ delimiters\ are\ used.

[Manchunian]

I'd forgotten that one! Thanks for that, bigtomrodney!