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Comment by mcantor | Hacker News Reader

Did anyone else start experiencing physical pain when the hacker accessed the right file in the wrong place for the hundredth time without typing "ls" ONCE?

I had no idea the reflex was so strong, but I almost starting twitching. I caught myself reaching for the keyboard to hammer out "ls -l". What a tragedy.

(I leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine whether the tragedy is the hacker's incompetence or my reflexive neckbeard response to it.)

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What got me was

     # rm -rf a.tar

But to be fair, maybe it's not that hair-raising if your only experience is with other people's command prompts.

I felt myself being urged to type on a non-existent keyboard as well. If it was a person near me at the keyboard, I would have felt compelled to tell them to move out of the chair and let me do the work.

Alias "ls -l" to "ll" in your .bash file, it helps :)

I do; I expanded it to "ls -l" for the benefit of other hackers who might not be familiar with the convention. :-)

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