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^This^ ^is^ ^a^ ^joke,^ ^I^ ^didn't^ ^really^ ^lock^ ^myself^ ^out^

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[–] piefood@feddit.online 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fun fact: When you do iptables-save, you have to redirect the output if you want to save it to a file. But when you use iptables-restore, you don't need to pipe it back in, you can just use the filename!

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It wasn't always that way. At one time you had to so I still do.

[–] piefood@feddit.online 6 points 3 weeks ago

Totally! I still catch myself doing that sometimes. Old habits die hard