mkdir foo && cd foo
echo > -i
echo > yourself
rm *
Outputs:
remove yourself?
Don't tell me why this happens, everyone knows, but this is bullshit. Why are UNIX and/or UNIX-like systems so shit?
Mkdir foo && cd foo
Samuel Green
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Liam Perez
Gabriel Lewis
Excuse me
Easton Taylor
Its a hidden joke
Benjamin Butler
Because the standard is optimized for a faster PDP-11
Jaxson Mitchell
Unix is still here because the thing that would surpass Unix would have to come out of some environment which would need to surpass the environment where Unix was created.
The major tech innovation today is in evil ad-tech companies and not some hippie laissez-faire kind of moonshot enginnering org like AT&T or PARC.
Austin Martin
You mean Bell Labs?
Jace Rivera
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Jace Perry
The problem is that UNIX can't advance either, because of POSIX
Alexander Moore
Yea, posix could be obsolete. If you hear BSD folks envying Linux innovation, and install base, one wonders if posix needs to be a thing, still.
Nathan Lewis
Can you elaborate on this
Luke Ward
because you don't know how to use them
rm -- *
here you go
Logan Wright
not op, but posix was the vehicle to get the dozens of unix variants under the umbrella in the 80s and 90s. But most of them died, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, mostly gone.
Liam Flores
IRIX, rip
Caleb Powell
Shit as well
Jonathan Myers
remove yourself
Daniel James
Replacing the Unix tradition
youtube.com
Aaron Morgan
I mean fundamentally this is happening because the shell doesn't have any sort of type system. Everything is text, so rm doesn't know how to differentiate between arguments and filenames. I think Powershell had a good idea in adding a type system to a shell, but they fucked it up by making all of the functions horribly verbose and making it Windows only.
Jacob Parker
rm ./*
there you go
Nolan Davis
>he thinks AIX is gone
Oh, honey...
Ryan Rogers
try this in a VM:
echo > -rf
echo > \~
rm *
Jason Ward
>be me
>read this
>oh how bad could that be?
>try it
>wtf, rm * == rm -i yourself ????
>let it run
>-i is still present
>it lingers like a fucking plague
>rm [tab]
>rm -i
>rm -i -i -i -i -i -i -i -i -i -i -i...
>oh god...
this was a mistake, how do we delet?
Blake Collins
>echo "`rm *`"
good thing no sudo or i would have lost the whole system.
Tyler Wright
so what you're saying is we need to write a modern interpreted shell scripting language which has implicit non-declarable types?
Any other ideas besides that, i might actually try it.
Thomas Cook
Unix was a shitty and proprietary system in the 70s and OP is a faggot who can't into. /
Blake Wilson
>they fucked it up by making all of the functions horribly verbose
as a result of making it object-oriented.
If we're having a discussion about how we can improve the Unix design model or replace parts of it, one thing is clear.
The shell language can NOT be object-oriented.
Jason White
rm ./-i