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Patrick

Dec 17, 2017 03:47

The title does not match the question. The title sounds like you're asking why the error message has 3 :'s, when your typed command is 2 :'s. But your question is instead asking something completely different.

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Patrick

Oct 26, 2014 17:45

Anyone know of a question to dup this one against? http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/164294/4358
It's an X/Y problem where the OP want's to make sure a tar is extracted into a single directory. I see similar questions, but they have to deal with other formats (cpio, zip, etc). Not finding a generic or tar specific one.

Patrick

Oct 18, 2014 01:11

I see a system rebuild in someone's future

Patrick

Oct 18, 2014 01:05

s/answer/question/

Patrick

Oct 18, 2014 01:02

keep reading :-)

Patrick

Oct 18, 2014 01:02

I did :-)

Patrick

Oct 18, 2014 01:00

yes

Patrick

Oct 18, 2014 01:00

typical newbie behavior. add it as a comment, discover it looks like shit, adds it to the question instead, doesn't delete the comment

Patrick

Oct 18, 2014 00:58

@slm I just reverted your edit. You just added information to the question that was already in the question

Patrick

Oct 18, 2014 00:53

@Braiam http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/162803/4358
With all the command missing crap (the `command-not-found`, `id: not found`, `x-terminal-emulator: not found`, etc). I'd bet you money the user has gone and deleted something catastrophic

Patrick

Oct 17, 2014 03:00

ugh. oh-my-zsh. I used to hang out in the #zsh channel on freenode. 95% of issues people came in with were because of that damn thing

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 22:12

@Gilles While this is true. I'd bet you it is

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 22:11

true, and I don't imagine PCI auditors are going to be fond of that data being in a file in the first place. There should be nothing to scrub

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 22:09

/me reads the question to see what evil he's doing

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 22:07

@Gilles Is he seriously *itching because he removed information from his question, and the provided answer didn't cover the information that was removed?

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 02:09

as in points, not closing

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 02:09

@slm Isn't that what voting is for?

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 02:05

I would also ask this, what is accomplished by closing it? If the answer isn't going to be deleted. It's been solved, so nobody else is going to answer it. So what is gained?

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 02:00

oh, pardon. I misread "default" with "difficult"

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 01:59

Yes, but you're a mod. If you're on the fence, you shouldn't vote.

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 01:58

Yeah, thinking about it more, I still disagree with the close. While the description of the close reason mentions typos (and very briefly at that), the primary purpose is in bold, "can't be reproduced".

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 01:55

Maybe. It's only 1 point away from meeting this rule:
The system will automatically delete closed (not as a duplicate), unlocked questions with zero or negative score having no upvoted or accepted answers or pending reopen votes, that were closed 9 or more days ago and haven't been edited in the past 9 days.

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 01:54

Is it a typo when It's systematic as well? Meaning it wasn't just mistyped once, it was the whole config

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 01:53

Meh, I can somewhat go with that. But it also seems likely that someone else might run into the issue, and thus the solution would be helpful.

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 01:47

It is reproducable. And it was closed after the user posted the solution.

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 01:47

"put on hold as off-topic" ... "a problem that can't be reproduced"
what?

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 01:47

Q: Perl plugins don't work on my rxvt-unicode!

I wanted to add some features to my urxvt so I changed my .Xresources file. for the global effect of plugins I copied them all to /usr/lib/urxvt/perl. but still no multi tab, clickable link or changing the font size on the fly. The keymap hassle is active too. Urxvt.perl-lib: /usr/lib/urxvt/perl...

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 00:27

similar experience here, except we had a question pool. So each student got 40 out of 60 questions or so, and in random order. So it was still possible to consult others.

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 00:19

@Braiam Heh, i like that.

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 00:17

Your answer, "43.12" is incorrect. The correct answer is "43.120"

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 00:15

@Ramesh I can understand that. After all the op didn't fix the question, we did.

Patrick

Oct 16, 2014 00:14

@Braiam It's unfortunately a very common program in school. I forget the name of it though

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:49

@Ramesh That is a good point.

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:41

@FaheemMitha Yes, testing program. I agree, shitty program.

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:39

Yes, but we also just tought someone about relative paths, and that ./ is implicit, and not required

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:38

@FaheemMitha depends on what you mean by "anything".

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:37

We are nix tutors here. that's the whole purpose of this site

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:36

@FaheemMitha His program asked him for the command to copy a file, he gave cp ../foo ./bar when the program wanted cp ../foo bar (no ./)

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:35

well, correct as in valid, but not what the program wanted

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:34

@FaheemMitha I'm arguing that he wasn't clueless. He had a correct answer

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:34

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:34

@slm school computer tests are notoriously horrible

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:31

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.

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:27

@slm Ty

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:25

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

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:24

@Gilles That much hand holding? he had a completely valid command!

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:22

@Gilles So what was he supposed to have done? If he was stuck where he was, and kept getting told he had a wrong answer, asking for help is bad?

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:22

@FaheemMitha aye

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:21

if that's the criteria for a question here, then >90% of our questions should be closed

Patrick

Oct 15, 2014 23:20

it's a homework program. I highly doubt it gave him a syntax error, or anything more meaningful than "wrong"