27 Feb
2023
27 Feb
'23
8:50 p.m.
On 2/27/23 3:22 PM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Chet Ramey <chet.ramey(a)case.edu> wrote:
Or the horror show that is
wget -O - https://some-random-place/random-script.sh | bash
(or worse, | sudo bash).
Seriously, people, just stop depending so completely on the kindness of
strangers.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
On 2/27/23 3:04 PM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Yeah, really.
I do what I can, but it's a very steep uphill battle, as most
don't even understand that they're missing something, or that
they could learn it if they wanted to.
I think I'll stop ranting before I really get going. :-) IMHO the dependence upon IDEs is crippling; they
cut & paste to the
almost total exclusion of the keyboard, including when shell completion
would be faster.
Don't forget cargo-culting by pasting shell commands they got from the web
and barely understand, if at all.