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    Feels more polite for sure. (sh.itjust.works)
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    [–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 54 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

    alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"

    please shutdown; thanks

    [–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 48 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

    alias sudo fucking

    fucking systemctl restart firewalld.service

    fucking shutdown

    [–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 45 points 18 hours ago (3 children)
    [–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

    Unfortunately no longer maintained, but in case you didn't see the other reply: https://codeberg.org/iff/pay-respects

    [–] Glitterkoe@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

    Kind stranger; you made my day

    [–] ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    Is their a still maintained fork?

    [–] shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    I know this is a meme and not GitHub, but I thought some people might like to learn that if you do please shutdown && thanks it won't say you're welcome if the shutdown failed

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Wait, isn't it the other way around? I thought ; only executed the next command if the previous one succeeded, and && executed the next command regardless of exit status.

    [–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

    Partly right in bash:

    set -e; echo 1; echo 2;

    is the same as

    echo 1 && echo 2

    So if you see the -e in a script, it's to keep the function clean.

    [–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

    No, OP is correct, && only continues on exit 0. || For anything but zero, ; just chains another command.

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    Ah yes you're right, had to look it up to see for myself. It's weird because i remember specifically changing some of my &&s for ; instead because i wanted it to not continue if exit wasn't zero, but i must've misread it at the time. Time to change it back i guess lol.

    [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 8 hours ago

    It makes more sense if you think of semicolons like other programming languages like Java and C use it.

    foo();
bar();

    But those languages allow foo(); bar(); as well. Then && works like a normal short circuited expression (with side effects).

    [–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

    alias thanks="You are most welcomed"

    you need to use the echo command if you want to echo something: alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"

    (the inner single-quotes are not strictly required in this case, but recommended nonetheless)

    [–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

    Huh yeah my bad, wrote this too fast in-between two messages at work