sudo’s Hall of pain

  • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 个月前

    Aha! I didn’t get that you meant the issue was accidentally using -r instead of -R since both you and OP wrote the upper case one.

    I’m a lot more used to -R so I instead get caught off by commands where that means something other than recursive :)

    I mostly use symbolic mode and honestly don’t get why everyone else seems to use octal all the time.

    • unalivejoy@lemm.ee
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      8 个月前

      People probably confuse it with tools like cp, rm, ls, etc as they use -r for file recursion.

      • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 个月前

        ls -r actually lists entries in reverse order! It needs -R as well.

        cp and rm accept either.

        Looking at some man pages the only commands I found where -R didn’t work were scp and gzip where it doesn’t do anything, and rsync where it’s “use relative path names”.

        (Caveat: BSD utils might be different, who knows what those devils get up to!)