• OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      54·
      1 month ago

      rm -rf “$STEAMROOT/”* could be evaluated as rm -rf “/”* if $STEAMROOT is empty

      Ah, good times.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        13·
        1 month ago

        Probably a good idea to enable the nounset shell option when shipping commercial-grade install scripts. 😅

        • fruitcantfly@programming.dev
          2·
          1 month ago

          That really ought to have been the default behavior. Opting out only takes one or two extra characters. Well, four if you don’t habitually bracket your variable names, which you should probably be doing anyways

        • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Or just include the trailing slash in $STEAMROOT, so that if the variable is empty, it will evaluate to rm -rf "" and do nothing.

          • Victor@lemmy.world
            31·
            1 month ago

            That seems like a more error-prone solution than the shell option. That would make it evaluate to rm -rf * which would probably delete your home directory, I’m guessing. And also put the burden of knowing the slash needs to be included on something completely disconnected from the expression. Nah, don’t do it like that.

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 month ago

    This entire thread is giving me flashbacks to my junior dev days and forgetting a where clause when updating/deleting database records

    • Buckshot@programming.dev
      4·
      1 month ago

      We’ve all done that at some point.

      That sinking feeling when your quick update doesn’t return immediately.

      Good to get into the habit of wrapping your queries in a begin transaction/rollback until you verify the result 😁

      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        I was never able to fully form the habit with transactions. The guardrails I use are writing the where clause first and keeping my query tool in read-only mode for prod connections and only disabling it once I’m sure I need to make a change.

  • zitrone 🍋@europe.pub
    17·
    1 month ago

    that is why you don’t run random install script as root

    i hate that so many tools nowadays want you to curl | sh for installing

    • w33n1s@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 month ago

      Glad I’m not the only one. It’s always the shell apps that use annoying emojis too

    • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      i hate that so many tools nowadays want you to curl | sh for installing

      Using NixOS has the advantage of making me not want to touch these tools. If I can’t install it reproducibly with Nix, I’ll just look for an alternative :)

  • axx@slrpnk.net
    3·
    1 month ago

    This is from 15 years ago. How many more times will we have to see it?

      • nil@piefed.caEnglish
        14·
        1 month ago

        Ubuntu tries to become (or is already) the de facto standard. That is what assholes do.

          • nil@piefed.caEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            Honestly, I meant it for a joke, but people started taking it seriously, I don’t know where to end this.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 month ago

              Hmm alright. I too dislike some things about Ubuntu but on the other hand you cannot blame people (myself included) who either have tried other distros and had support issues and came back to Ubuntu based, or those who just want the easier route to begin with. Ubuntu-based seems to be a good compromise for many. I’ve also used arch and fedora and had more headaches and breakages on those. Also I literally have a laptop that gets supported on Ubuntu so it makes life easier all around. Fuck some of the things canonical does but I just do not want to spend time with things like fixing my wifi connection after running pacman -S install or whatever that command is.

      • sbeak@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        8·
        1 month ago

        Ubuntu is owned by Canonical, and they have been making some decisions that a lot of people in the community don’t like, most notably, the enforcement of snaps (in a nutshell, the repos are proprietary and centralised), but they have been involved in various other corpo shenanigans as well

        But I don’t think “X distro is bad, don’t use it” is very useful unless it is dangerous or harmful to the user.

        Ubuntu (or the various other buntus) work for some people, and without them, far fewer people would use Linux. The benefit of Linux is the amount of choice you get and being able to easily switch between distros (you can even dual boot if you want!)

        So if you like Mint, stick with that. If somebody prefers the buntus, it’s great as long as they are respectful to others!

        Distro wars are stupid

      • MrKoyun@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 month ago

        It’s not really bad. It’s just kinda distasteful due to stuff like Snap packages and Canonical’s position of privacy as a company. But it isn’t really a bad distro if you ignore that stuff. If it works it works.

      • nil@piefed.caEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Ubuntu kinda forces you to use snap (which sucks), and is owned by Canonical.

        Neither of them apply to Linux Mint, so nice choice.