Coming into the party late, but I don't think it was as bad as everyone is making it out to be. 1) the user is obviously new, and probably didn't know you could embed images into the question so they can be viewed without clicking 2) the image itself was extremely critical to the answer as the asker stated he tried a valid command, which in any normal shell would have worked.
In fact, the only thing I can fault him for is not stating in the original question what he tried. That is an issue yes, but it's the only legitimate one that I would fault him for.
@FaheemMitha I would be inclined to close the 2nd one as a dup of the one you wrote your A on. But i was thinking of migrating Kwiwy's A to that Q as well
@Gilles - I'd be lying if I said that thought hadn't crossed my mind...a zillion times...
@Gilles - thoughts on whether it's worth merging these 2 Q's? I'm thinking of making this a dup of this. The 1st one is actually older but the 2nd Q from today is asked better IMO
and the image was crucial. if he had pasted the command and said "this doesn't work", we would have jumped on him saying "you're lying", and some of us did
If you're saying he should be asking the instructor. That might be a valid option yes. But instructors can be very hard to get a hold of. They have *lots* of students. Study groups & peer help is very common in college. We just became his peer help. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with that.
I think Patrick's point is that this guy had roughly the correct A and was asking for help and he got basically -6, and told that his command was wrong and that he's typing it wrong.
@Patrick, I agree you have a valid point but the OP was told to put what he had in image as text in this comment which he chose to ignore. And yet, when he got an answer at roughly the same time, he chose to respond back.
I have this problem as part of a school assignment:
I tried doing:
cp ../cambridge/security/parking ./parking2
...but it doesn't work.
