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> I want to be able to say "Delete all the screenshots on my Desktop", instead of going into a terminal and typing "rm ~/Desktop/*.png". But why? It takes many
by ofrzeta 1y ago
> I want to be able to say "Delete all the screenshots on my Desktop", instead of going into a terminal and typing "rm ~/Desktop/*.png".
But why? It takes many more characters to type :)
- mrighele 1y agoBecause with the above command your assistant will delete snapshot-01.png and snapshot-02.jpeg, and avoid deleting by mistake my-kids-birthday.png
- sensanaty 1y agoWill it? With how they work I find it more likely to run a sudo rm -rf /* than anything else.
- GenshoTikamura 1y agoChatGPT has just told me you should rather do `rm ~/Desktop/snapshot*.jpeg` in this case. I'm so impressed with this new shiny AI tech, I'd never be able to figure that out on my own!
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