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I do. And I also write "vim vim thefile.txt" and stuff like that.

Finally I've written a small shell function that corrects "gi tpull" to "git pull", because that happens at least once a day.

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I always typed rebnoot, so I patched Netbsd to allow rebnoot. Then I patched it still so it would say, "Rebnooting". Fun times.

Can't tell if serious...

Knowing software developers, probably entirely serious.

The seasoned sysadmins are a little more careful before smacking the enter key...

Depends on the importance of the system. If it's a fairly unimportant home system that's excessively backed up, it's fairly easy to live life on the edge.

rm -i and rm -f (as well as mv and cp) allow to specify certainty not merely for everyone above UID 0.

Keyword: Backups.

It’s probably just a shell script or an alias

An alias would work but it wouldn't say rebnooting. That was my initial fix. But I was learning things at the time and I learned how to recompile parts of the distribution. I also learned how programs in Unix could invoke different effects based on name. Coming from DOS, it was a real surprise that reboot was a link to shutdown.

So I am assuming you ended up patching the `shutdown` binary to print `Rebnooting` if exec'd with the `rebnoot` name?

This is similar to how busybox binary implements a bunch of the tools from coreutils etc.

Our org has a bunch of related miscellaneous projects called "pantry". Basically, if it doesn't fit standalone, you put it in the pantry. It works out better than you think, except when someone is doing a webex and misses an r.

Relatable. For years, I aliased mroe to more. Now I alias mroe and more to less.

My wife drafts a lot of legal documents, and has a problem with "doe snot". Which unfortunately the spelling checker is perfectly happy with.

There's defintitely room for an advanced spell checker that can say "This is valid, but probably wrong".

defintitely

Defiantly.

The spell checker in Chrome can already do that to some extent. For example, "The men walked over their to grab they're food." gets corrected: https://i.imgur.com/NR4zyVA.png

There’s at least one product trying to address the issue with “valid, but probably wrong” typos. It’s called Grammarly and for some unfathomable reason it gets advertised to me a lot on YouTube whenever Google detects I’m in South Korea; I believe they are seriously mistargeting their marketing efforts.

(That said, if it were me, I’m not sure if I would give up typing doe snot every once in a while.)

command-not-found [1] could implement that, if it isn't implemented already. I remember a Linux distribution with an application which would let a train pass in a few seconds after typing typical commands wrong. Trust me, you'll learn to type correct when that happens because it is very annoying.

EDIT: as mentioned below, it is called 'sl'

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommandNotFoundMagic

I just ran across Language Tool[0] recently. Free, open-source proofreading lib, can be run totally locally. Uses Google Ngrams to check for often confused words. Didn't correct "doe snot" in my synthetic test just now, but that seems like a plausibly minor extension of existing functionality.

[0] https://www.languagetool.org/

The spelling checker in Word has some grammar rules, try to configure those if she uses Word.

My standard .bashrc aliases cd.. and cd- to the same thing with a space. Eliminating minor annoyances and focus-disruptors is great.

"Rebnooting" sounds like it should be a real word; probably a military term.

Try The Fuck: https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck/blob/master/README.md

I have The Fuck because I think the premise is hilarious, though I don't use it as much as I'd like since it's kind of slow for me...

It's apparently grown an "instant mode" which goes much faster: https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck/blob/master/README.md#experi...

For the latter, https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck is great and pretty satisfying to use.

(me earlier this month: https://twitter.com/sailoremo/status/908390247548911617)

If debian ever starts shipping with a util called "gi", I'm screwed!

`alias gi="rm -rf /"`

--no-preserve-root

sudo

Suicide git

sudocide

Depending on how the scritp is written, you're screwed only if it comes with a tpull command.

Yes! I do all of those things too. git git, vim vim, and 'gi tpull' and 'gi tpush' and everything.

I think any command where you might start to type something out, but then need to refer to another window or session to figure out what else you want to type, is vulnerable to this kind of mistake.

Got a weird idea reading this. How about checking for all 127 error codes returned by $? (this is the return code that the shell gets, following a failed command, due to command not found).

This process should happen behind the scenes. And then train a RNN for translating it to the following command, which returns a success code. Perhaps, we need to add a few checks that successful command has the same intent as the one which returned 127 error code to the shell.

I just alias 'pull' to git pull, it's much nicer. Also 'push' and a few of the other most common ones.

Or alias to gp, gl, gd, ga, gmv, grm, gsh, glg, gcm, gcam, gpuo, gdwd, gpuom, ...

glwt

You're joking but...

    alias g='git status -sb'
    alias ga='git add'
    alias gac='git commit --amend'
    alias gb='git branch'
    alias gbb='git checkout -b'
    alias gbm='git branch --merged'
    alias gbn='git branch --no-merged'
    alias gc='git commit -m'
    alias gcp='git cherry-pick'
    alias gco='git checkout'
    alias gd='git diff'
    alias gdc='git diff --cached'
    alias gg='git status'
    alias gl='git log --graph --pretty=format:"%Cred%h%Creset -%C(auto)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset" --abbrev-commit'
    alias gla='git log --all --graph --pretty=format:"%Cred%h%Creset -%C(auto)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset" --abbrev-commit'
    alias ggpublish='git push && git push --tags && npm publish'
    alias gp='git pull --rebase && git push'
    alias gpp='git push && git push --tags'
    alias gpl='git pull --rebase --prune'
    alias gpt='git pull --rebase && git push --tags'
    alias grb='git rebase'
    alias grc='git rebase --continue'
    alias gsp='git stash ; gp ; git stash pop'
    alias unfuckgitremote='git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD` `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`'

I have to admit I use `unfuckgitremote` more often than you'd hope.

Instead of `unfuckgitremote`, why not just use `git push -u`?

origin head

The oh-my-zsh git plugin does that -

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/plugin...

If only there was a git shell...

There is, but it's just a restricted login shell. I see what you mean though

I put my most common git commands on keyboard macros mostly for this reason.

alias p='git pull'

why type 8 characters 100 times a day, when you can type 1?

Personally, I don't want my typos corrected when I enter commands. I prefer the negative reinforcement to encourage fewer errors. I also don't mind an occasional error.

Not hatin. Just wondering if I'm alone.

I'm the same, though I create tiny aliases for commonly typed commands. gp = "git pull", and so on.

You probably aren't alone, since commands that punish you when you mistype exist. Check out sl[0] or gti[1].

[0] https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl [1] http://r-wos.org/hacks/gti

Ha -- both are amusing.

It's not only commands. My spelling skills took a dive, as google got better and better in guessing what I actually want to search for.

Can you disable that feature somewhere ? The suggestion is good, but automatically doing the corrected query is not!

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