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If you’ve never logged into a Linux machine without nano installed, then you probably haven’t logged into that many flavours of Linux machine. I agree this is
by relax88 5y ago
If you’ve never logged into a Linux machine without nano installed, then you probably haven’t logged into that many flavours of Linux machine.
I agree this is pretty much a non issue for the average developer, but those of us who work on network infrastructure, as red-team hackers, or do any work on embedded systems can attest to how much of a pain it would be to not know how to use vi/vim.
- koolba 5y agoThis is even more common in the world of containers where “nice to have just for debugging” get omitted. You haven’t lived till you have to edit using only sed.
- KronisLV 5y agoThere is definitely something to be said about having minimalistic container images for security and smaller sizes... But not having a basic text editor that is probably a few hundred KB feels a bit silly, especially given how many environment dependencies usually get packaged into containers anyways. That's like not including any sort of a shell in your container and wondering why people are having troubles with debugging. Personally, i think that just basing container images on something like Alpine, Debian or even Ubuntu images is good enough because those are stripped down enough already for the most part.
- koolba 5y agoOf course you add a sane editor after it happens. But that first time…
- trissylegs 5y agoI did build a arch Linux install using cat <<EOF, grep and sed. But golly it gets tedious
- relax88 5y agoSounds like pain, but also a means to getting better at sed.
- bakul 5y agoed.