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> It sounds like you're recommending people to not understand the shell one-liners they're pasting into their CLI and instead just verify that the outcome was o
by sharkjacobs 2y ago
> It sounds like you're recommending people to not understand the shell one-liners they're pasting into their CLI and instead just verify that the outcome was observed after the fact?
Yes
> Is "just paste it and hope you don't lost data/just installed a virus" the new modus-oprandi?
No
Somewhere in between those two extremes is knowing enough to know that the command you’re pasting in isn’t going to install a virus, even though you don’t fully understand what the -g flag is doing
- Xelynega 2y agoYou either understand what the outcome of the command will be before you execute or you don't. I fail to see any middle ground between those two "extremes", it's pretty black and white.