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Gruber: Today's command line isn't dangerous, just convenient
- mustpax 17y agoDon't wanna get all Unix-macho here, but the regular command line is also pretty safe when you're just launching applications and doing things equivalent to the location bar. It gets dangerous for only a specific subset of administrative commands such as rm, mv, apt- which provide different functionality anyway. That said. you can get burnt clobbering important files with output redirection. It's a good idea to enable the "noclobbler" setting in Bash like so: set -o noclobber It's saved me plenty of times from deleting important partially process data.
- ericwaller 17y agoThe new ones aren't dangerous because you can't actually do anything with them. As soon as I can send an email (or affect the outside world in any way) from the location bar, it becomes just as dangerous as the unix command line.
- bazbarfoo 17y agocd / rm * essentially renders your machine useless. Surely it would be easy to make it less dangerous than this.
- ericwaller 17y agoOf course it would be, my point is that less dangerous necessarily means less powerful. Though I'd agree that there are cases where the trade off is desirable, like `rm -rf /`.
- benreesman 17y agoyou can pry bash from my cold, dead hands.
- pookleblinky 17y agoTry taking zsh away from me and my cold, dead jaw will reanimate and seek your throat.