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me helping a newbie: "type find...." him: presses enter me: "no, don't just press enter, I wasn't done yet, did I say press enter?! oh well, type find dot slash
by exe34 2y ago
me helping a newbie:
"type find...."
him: presses enter
me: "no, don't just press enter, I wasn't done yet, did I say press enter?! oh well, type find dot slash...."
him: presses enter
me: "okay please take your hands off the keyboard! I'll type it for you in the chat."
- senkora 2y agoI once TA’d an intro to unix class where I had to help a lot of students this way. I would vocalize e.g. “find -name '*png'” as “find space hyphen name space single-quote asterisk png single-quote enter”. I found that saying it exactly like that had the highest success rate. I never wanted to type it for them because the point of the class was to get familiar with unix and the shell.
- exe34 2y agoah space might help, I'll try that. i keep having to prefix everything with please don't press enter until I tell you.