I am immune to /dev/sda for I only have nvme
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Having been in this situation (the only binary I could use was bash
, although cd
was a bash builtin for me), echo *
is your friend. Even better is something like this:
get_path_type() {
local item
item="$1"
[[ -z "$item" ]] && { echo 'wrong arg count passed to get_path_type'; return 1; }
if [[ -d "$item" ]]; then
echo 'dir'
elif [[ -f "$item" ]]; then
echo 'file'
elif [[ -h "$item" ]]; then
echo 'link' # not accurate, but symlink is too long
else
echo '????'
fi
}
print_path_listing() {
local path path_type
path="$1"
[[ -z "$path" ]] && { echo 'wrong arg count passed to print_path_listing'; return 1; }
path_type="$(get_path_type "$path")"
printf '%s\t%s\n' "$path_type" "$path"
}
ls() {
local path paths item symlink_regex
paths=("$@")
if ((${#paths[@]} == 0)); then
paths=("$(pwd)")
fi
shopt -s dotglob
for path in "${paths[@]}"; do
if [[ -d "$path" ]]; then
printf '%s\n' "$path"
for item in "$path"/*; do
print_path_listing "$item"
done
elif [[ -e "$path" ]]; then
print_path_listing "$path"
printf '\n'
fi
done
}
This is recreated from memory and will likely have several nasty bugs. I also wrote it and quickly tested it entirely on my phone which was a bit painful. It should be pure bash, so it'll work in this type of situation.
EDIT: I'm bored and sleep deprived and wanted to do something, hence this nonsense. I've taken the joke entirely too seriously.
was a bit painful
Well that's an understatement
My pain tolerance for shitty input methods has been permanently warped after experiencing psychic damage from using Teamviewer to connect to a system over a very flaky HughesNet satellite link. I was working for a vendor that supplied a hardware networking box to a stupid retail company that sells food and shit. I just wanted to ssh to our boxen on a specific network so I could troubleshoot something, but the only way I could get to it was via putty installed on an ancient Windows XP desktop on the same network as our box that could only be accessed with Teamviewer. My favorite part of that was that the locale or something was fucked up, so my qwerty keyboard inputs were, like, fucking transformed into azerty somehow?? The Windows desktop was locked down and monitored to a tremendous degree, so I couldn't change anything. The resolution was terrible, the latency was over a second, and half of my keyboard inputs turned into gibberish on the other side.
Oh, and I was onsite at that same company's HQ doing a sales engineering call while I was trying to figure out what was wrong. I spent 5 days sitting in spare offices with shitty chairs, away from my family, living that fucking nightmare before I finally figured out what was wrong. God damn, what a fucking mess that was. For anyone reading this, NEVER WORK FOR GROCERY/DRUG STORE IT. They are worse than fucking banks in some ways. Fuck.
EDIT: also, I asked 'why Teamviewer' and the answer was always shrugs. This was before the big TeamViewer security incidents, so maybe they thought it was more secure? Like, at least they didn't expose RDP on the internet...
Hmmm command not found, let me just try the same command a couple more times, this time it will work right?
In IT teaching users to actually read and understand errors is always an uphill battle.
I learned early in my software engineering career these two beautiful rules of debugging:
- Read all of the words
- Believe them
Where is the Windows 'help' button, did you try that?
Tbh I'd try it multiple times too, just because the concept of cd not being there is horrifying and cannot possibly be the case
Very true, I would do the same and feel my stomach drop farther each time.
You should all just use an immutable distro. Problemo solved-o.
/s
guix rollback
"gg" - dd
I see girls last tour, I upvote.
Empty $PATH
.
.... but cd
is a built-in
-1 accuracy point ( ◞ ﹏ ◟)
linux 4.5-rc5 had efivarfs fixed to prevent "rm -rf /" bricking uefi motherboards -- so maybe someone can try it out? :]