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http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?a=54
I have posted a thorough global announcement regarding this situation. I hope people will find it an informing and educational read.
Originally Posted by tuxradar
Already done.
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Never run any command unless you understand exactly what it will do. [link]
I can see where you are coming from. I just remember similar things happening in BBS's and newsgroups during the early days of the windows registry. Its extremely powerful, if you take the time to know what you are doing and keep a general principle that anything you do to your computer will have an effect, desired or undesired. Awareness will determine which one will take place.No, that's a good point, but at least the simple warning can lead to a conversation that educates.
For example...
A: I can't delete this item from my trash can
B: Try pasting this command in the terminal: sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
A: But your signature says never to sudo rm -rf anything...?
B: That's because we have had some malicious trolls asking new users to delete their entire hard drives. sudo rm -rf means to remove with administrative privileges recursively and with force. In this case, we are doing so only for your trash (not the entire installation)
C: What user B is saying is true. You may also want to read the manual for rm to get a better idea of how it's used: man rm
A: Okay. Now I get it.
I've modified my signature with a link to linux online MAN pages in support of overall awareness of CLI commands.
"Its easy to come up with new ideas, the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date." -Roger von Oech
Before Executing commands, understand WHAT you are doing and WHY YOU WOULD WANT TO DO THAT. Some Commands can be VERY dangerous if you are uninformed!
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Done and done. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
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Thanks; feedback appreciated.
P.S. The link has double-http's and is broken in your sig
Originally Posted by tuxradar
I have some reservations about man pages. Many of them - not all, though - seem to me to be written by geeks for geeks. On a number of occasions I've looked at them and felt just plain overwhelmed, and I don't consider myself particularly stupid. (Even my kids agree!) So how is a new user, especially one who is under stress because of something that's gone wrong, going to cope?
Just my thoughts.
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Spare your nerves and do one before you upgrade or install.
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Almost sounds like some kind of intelligence needs to be built into the command-line for this.
In the old DOS days, when you'd put "del *.*", it would prompt you, asking "this will wipe out everything...are you sure? Y/N"
For situations like this, I'd think the command-line commands would have some built-in safety net. But, I'm guessing they probably do and the -f switch makes it where it doesn't prompt the user at all?
I know the DOS del command had a switch you could use to auto "yes" everything, and not prompt/warn. It's a real dilemma.
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