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This is just a silly post if anyone cares to join in.

Often when reading tutorials, I see examples of commands used in ways that make little sense or are generally not useful. It was bumping into such a demonstration yesterday that inspired this post...

If you have a command, a command with parameters, or a small script, which is, well, a trifle daft , please feel free to post it.

Here is mine: Note: Please do not post commands that would be harmful to the someones system; all commands should be able to be executed safely!

Using sudo with commands that do not require root privileges. I'm sure we've all seen many of those.

4D696B65 wrote:Using sudo with commands that do not require root privileges. I'm sure we've all seen many of those.

Lets try to display an example for each.

So, perhaps:

Linux/BSD can show different levels of self awareness
Might show "God does not exist" or "creating God"

But not sexually aware
Don't know how to make love

I despise superfluous commands, useless use of `cat` is the prime example of this: Rather than Or using `echo` & redirection rather than a simple here string (or document), so this: instead of

ruffwoof wrote:

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make love

i always liked

...but here's a more serious one:
i once tried to set up a caldav server on my kitchen server - radicale, to be precise, with setup instructions.
at some point it instructs me to add a radicale user, with / as home!
... after a while i decided that i don't like radicale so much, so i deleted the radicale user - i used the userdel command with the -f switch (that also removes the home directory).
guess what happened!!!
all my music was on that same partition.
i'm still recovering from that, almost a year later.