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  1. Alcoholic Beast Alcoholic Beast

    Since I am repairing my Linux laptop, well, attempting to anyway.

    Is there a functional difference between "rm -rf persistent_directory" and "rm -r -f persistent_directory" ?

    Sunday, 13-Oct-19 13:19:03 UTC from web
    1. adiwan adiwan

      @drinkingpony There is none. The first command just combines both options that you define separately in the second command.

      Sunday, 13-Oct-19 14:39:58 UTC from web
      1. Alcoholic Beast Alcoholic Beast

        @adiwan Is there a place where I can learn how these parameters work ? Like some sort of golden rule ?

        Sunday, 13-Oct-19 14:41:28 UTC from web
        1. adiwan adiwan

          @drinkingpony the manual page "man rf". How the parameters work is widely dependent on the program you want to use. Some allow writing the parameters right after another (like "rm -rf") like "ls" and others are not (like mplayer or ffmpeg having a special order of parameters).

          Sunday, 13-Oct-19 14:47:11 UTC from web
          1. Alcoholic Beast Alcoholic Beast

            @adiwan ... No golden rule ? ... Aw man, I can usually not make any sense of the man pages, I can type 'man man' right now and get a synopsis that makes my head spin.

            [--warnings=[warnings]]

            What ?

            Sunday, 13-Oct-19 15:08:26 UTC from web
            1. adiwan adiwan

              @drinkingpony the manual for "man" is not the most helpful in your situation.

              Sunday, 13-Oct-19 15:23:21 UTC from web
              1. Alcoholic Beast Alcoholic Beast

                @adiwan Nonsence, I saw a Twidaily of Twilight reading a book on how to read a book.

                I'd post it if I could find it.

                Sunday, 13-Oct-19 16:36:46 UTC from web
            2. Scribus Scribus

              @drinkingpony I know that feel, man.

              Sunday, 13-Oct-19 16:43:50 UTC from web