Yeah, I actually agree the Topic Title is not good. It should be "10 commands that beginners should not MISuse" but the whole tech world wants to keep people ignorant, don't they?Argus wrote:
It's just a matter of:
1) knowing the potential consequences of what you're doing
2) being careful that you actually know what directory you're in and what that command you just typed does before you press enter.
Just click the spinng advertisement and watch the pretty girl while we hypnotrize yer brains out... terminal is evil, terminal is black, terminal have no advertisemnet.
I was just saying there are at least two ways of looking at it. Practical experience is best up to a point, but academic learning is invaluable, because you can't be a self-taught expert at everything. Combining the two types of learning makes sense.