Post AvLAthUrJXrMZXwx96 by moelassus@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AvKcJPCgSB8OyEyDHk by ricci@discuss.systems
       2025-06-20T19:36:00Z
       
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       The hardest problem in computer science continues to be remembering when you should put a slash on the end of the path you pass to rsync and when you shouldn't
       
 (DIR) Post #AvKcVnrgaaGSvo3nou by ricci@discuss.systems
       2025-06-20T19:38:13Z
       
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       @secretasianman no i need you to help refresh my memory
       
 (DIR) Post #AvKdidsV8BvJg07yHg by ricci@discuss.systems
       2025-06-20T19:51:46Z
       
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       @secretasianman brb getting lost in the manpage
       
 (DIR) Post #AvKgVCqIdYJxvQNmkK by edavies@functional.cafe
       2025-06-20T20:22:55Z
       
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       @ricci wibble/wobble The directory and its contents.wibble/wobble/ The contents of the directory.wibble/wobble/* The contents of the directory other than those things whose name starts with a dot.If it's the destination it'll be a bit more flexible in fairly obvious ways depending on whether it's just one thing which is being copied or more than one thing.I think it's rsync which is right and the rest of Unix which is wrong.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvKiFtdXxdJdvNFFya by erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social
       2025-06-20T20:42:34Z
       
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       @ricci @ben I still check the man page *every* time
       
 (DIR) Post #AvKiSiceDvyJWnwGRs by ricci@discuss.systems
       2025-06-20T20:44:55Z
       
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       @erik @ben I just do it wrong, have to clean up, then do it again
       
 (DIR) Post #AvLAthUrJXrMZXwx96 by moelassus@mastodon.social
       2025-06-21T02:03:30Z
       
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       @ricci we need a mnemonic!
       
 (DIR) Post #AvM8SDmzeW89rpA3hA by neirbowj@mastodon.online
       2025-06-21T13:10:50Z
       
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       @ricci I feel like I've got this one nailed down better than the order of arguments to ln.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvNBRfjokRpNHP47Hs by rk@mastodon.well.com
       2025-06-22T01:19:05Z
       
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       @ricci UNIX, or a UNIX-like system, has been my primary operating system for the past…30 years? Or so. I still couldn’t write a crontab entry without consulting the man page.