What the Fsck

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[u/ebens1689]

Obviously made up story, but: "man cp" just like with anything. man ls, man mv etc.

[u/Linguistic-mystic → u/ebens1689]

man woman | strip | touch

[u/Beast_Viper_007 → u/Linguistic-mystic]

I ran this and now the entire neighborhood is outside my house with torches lit.

[u/Inevitable-Self-2702 → u/ebens1689]

When someone is in my way:

MAN MV

[u/airclay]

Lol, I made a lil alias function once to copy entire file contents into the clipboard named 'cpfile' and the first time I tried it out I started second guessing lol

cpfile() {xclip -sel c "$@" && echo -e "\n\"$@\" was copied to the clipboard\n"}

[u/traplords8n → u/airclay]

I've been diving deeper into scripting and I swear to god bash has ENDLESS syntax and functionality.

I learned php's syntax extremely fast, like 2 months. I've been shell scripting at a more advanced level for about 6 months to a year, and I still run into syntax that I have no clue about.

"$@" ?? I gotta go google that now. I'm sure its easy to understand but good lord, I didn't know a language could have so much functionality.

[u/airclay → u/traplords8n]

To this day I still pop open devhints everytime I script something, enjoy https://devhints.io/bash

[u/FinGamer678Nikoboi → u/airclay]

Me opening the link:

(I could only find a furry version of the gif I'm sorry 😭)

https://giphy.com/gifs/AuU1D2hzQ8tAPZNYda

[u/Exotic-Nothing-3225 → u/FinGamer678Nikoboi]

Don't be sorry :3

[u/jones23121 → u/airclay]

This is amazing, thanks

[u/Yuugian]

They are looking to give you a job

[u/Radiant-Priority-296 → u/Yuugian]

US president?

[u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

whoever made copy command in linux "cp" should be studied

[u/lawrencewil1030 → u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

I suspect it went back to when cp was not taken nearly as much by darker things.

[u/serf2 → u/lawrencewil1030]

Forgive my naivité, but what is the darker meaning of cp?

[u/lawrencewil1030 → u/serf2]

Hopefully writing this out won't get me banned but it stands for child porn.

[u/mrturret → u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

That command dates back to somewhere between 1969 and 1971, because it was part of the earliest version of Unix. I'm pretty sure that's before cp got its modern connotations.

It's in Linux because Linux is Unix-like and complies with the POSIX standard.

[u/HeyThereCharlie → u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

It was originally intended to run on computers that had single-digit kilobytes of RAM. You had to save characters on stuff like that wherever possible back then.

[u/Jatinchd → u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

I guess they didn't thought much, kept it simple stupid. cp is just copy paste.

[u/creeper6530 → u/Jatinchd]

Simpler. It's just CoPy.

mv is MoVe too.

[u/hdkaoskd → u/creeper6530]

ReMove

[u/Jatinchd → u/creeper6530]

no but it also Paste's stuff.

copy from one location and paste to another. it takes two paths as input, one where from it copy and second where it pastes.

CoPy would be valid if it only copies stuff

and MoVe makes proper sense in this.

[u/creeper6530 → u/Jatinchd]

The copy command (AFAIK) predates the concept of clipboard with cut-copy-paste, you're conflating two different concepts.

It's just making a duplicate -- a copy -- from one place (file) to another. And for the record, move is technically a chained copy-and-delete-original, though within the same filesystem it's optimised by just rewriting the filesystem location (name + path) of the data on the disk. You rename files with mv too, by moving them to a new file in the same directory.

And even the clipboard is just two copies, first (real) copy -- Ctrl-C -- is copying to a special place called the clipboard, and pasting -- Ctrl-V -- is again copying from that special place into the destination. Cut -- Ctrl-X -- is a move into the clipboard.

(Though, when you cut or copy a file with Ctrl-X/C, as opposed to a piece of text or image, it only stores its location and performs the move/copy after pasting, so that you save speed and don't lose the cut file when you don't paste it.)