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'date -d' vs. 'date -s', and 'show foo' vs. 'clear foo'

• lhorie 5y ago
  Relevant thing I saw a while back: CLI design guidelines[0] > Confirm before doing anything dangerous. A common convention is to prompt for the user to type y or yes if running interactively, or requiring them to pass -f or --force otherwise. Lots of other gems there. [0] https://clig.dev/#arguments-and-flags https://clig.dev/#arguments-and-flags
• h2odragon 5y ago
  Will we start seeing people do "escape form a locked server cage" as a stage stunt at conferences soon? I hope so. "CTF" etc needs more stakes.
• ksaj 5y ago
  A similar and very well known example like 'show' and 'clear' is 'ls -rf /' and 'rm -rf /'.