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Written by mvu on 2025-01-17 at 15:23

I've been a full-time developer for over 10 years, and blindly copy-pasting shell commands from the internet is still my go-to mechanism for solving new problems 💪

To this day I still don't know a single character of awk or sed syntax, and I'd like to thank the community for letting me keep it that way.

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Written by Michael Boelen on 2025-01-17 at 15:49

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There should be a International Copy-Paste Day!

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Written by Brandon F on 2025-01-17 at 15:58

@mvu The fact that "Just pipe our install command into a root bash terminal" is normal shows how far we've come in what we trust from developers. It works but I'm always slightly terrified doing it.

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Written by lemgandi on 2025-01-17 at 16:36

@mvu Oof. You are a trusting soul. Many times I have to edit the shell commands for my particular situation, and I'm on bog-standard Debian 12.

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Written by mvu on 2025-01-17 at 17:10

@lemgandi The event that prompted this post today was fairly innocuous at least. Just dumped an SQLite file, ran it through a sed command to remove bad references and re-sqlited the output.

What did that sed command do specifically? That's between my sqlite file and god, but everything's working now 💪

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