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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll just use an alias; sudo has been around for to long for me to change it and not be stressed about it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of when I aliased 'man' to 'rtfm'

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Sir, your thinking is certainly what kids call "next-level".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Best alias confirmed

proceeds to add it to .bashrc and .zshrc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

You guys know that there's an actual rtfm app that condenses the output of man to human-readable stuff right? Right??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Of course. . ...I was wrong and it is tldr not rtfm.

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

But surely you heard about TheFuck?

https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

There's actually an rtfm package in Arch's aur, but it just opens the archwiki for you which just adds that tiny bit of... of That Arch Way Of Doing Things I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@theshatterstone54 @reallyzen it's new to me. I'm keen to have this!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My bad: it's tldr not rtfm

Me too I have ~~stupid~~ disputable aliases...

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I know about tldr. It's pretty great. I actually use a Rust version of it called teeldeer. I also have a whole lot of "disputable" aliases, for example rtfm for tldr and rtfmp (read the fucking man page) for man. I also use fucking for sudo. There's nothing better than running pacman -Syu, realizing the mistake and then typing in fucking pacman -Syu

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

BRB, got a dotfile to edit real quick