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1. 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
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   • 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 in context
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   • Alcoholic Beast adiwan

     @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 in context
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   • 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 in context
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   • Alcoholic Beast adiwan

     @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 in context
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   • adiwan

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

     Sunday, 13-Oct-19 15:23:21 UTC in context
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   • Alcoholic Beast adiwan

     @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 in context
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   • Scribus

     @drinkingpony I know that feel, man.

     Sunday, 13-Oct-19 16:43:50 UTC in context