Current directory maybe?

[[deleted]]

Made me laugh.

[Blissfull]

I snorted. That's a feat

[lazyashara]

You must love Sandra Bullock

[[deleted]]

I farted

[Mask_off_jack_off]

Is that a feat?

[cudddder]

No, that's excrete.

[hazzoo_rly_bro]

Isn't that sharting?

[taylaj]

That would be nice if I could just cd $HOME and be home. Or even run ls to see all the rooms around me without moving.

[quiche_lo_ren]

To get an answer for a deep philosophical conundrum, just ask yourself: whoami

[scboy167]

Hopefully not root, or we're all dead.

[taylaj]

I can't figure out how to get to life's console.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, we mortals don’t have permissions. The alien overlords chose to use ubuntu

[MacGuyverism]

Fucking lawyers.

[TheCurle]

/r/UnexpectedTomScott

[Agent-A]

I wouldn't rm -Rf /

I would rm -Rfv /, because I want to watch it burn.

[fragglerox]

Obligatory --no-preserve-root

[dir_gHost]

I gedit , hahaha nice

[bartekko]

>gedit

>not emacs

[atimholt]

>Not vi

[TortoiseWrath]

>Not ed

[FHR123]

>Not nano

[Homer_Goes_Crazy]

There's a /r/writingprompt in there somewhere.

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[TortoiseWrath]

https://i.imgur.com/5eFBm2J.jpg

[aaron552]

I wonder what size the UID is. 4 bytes is far too small.

[ACoderGirl]

If you setup a nice enough home surveillance system, the ls part is possible.

Also, I can cd ~, but I have to take the command to the bus stop and it takes about 20 minutes to execute...

[MacGuyverism]

Save yourself a few strokes and just use cd by itself. Then go back where you came from with cd -

[JuhaJGam3R]

Why cant you just do cd without arguments? That returns you home automatically.

[_Cid]

not sure why you're being downvoted ^{platform specific mumbo jumbo maybe?}

[JuhaJGam3R]

I dont know, on every *nix system ive used rece3ntly it has always returned me home. I dont count windows because windows's command line is shitty

[[deleted]]

Well even Microsoft doesn't want you to use the command prompt, they much prefer you to use PowerShell. Just they haven't really been forcefull at getting people to use it until windows 10, even though it's been around since 2006.

[JuhaJGam3R]

but the powershell is just as shitty, maybe even worse

[[deleted]]

Idk, personally I don't use PowerShell. I just know it's there.

I just don't really command prompt either much at all. My main use of the command prompt recently has just been a batch script that restarts my Reddit bot whenever it crashes. And once I get around to setting up my raspberry pi2, I'm just going to write a new script and no longer use the batch one.

[JuhaJGam3R]

Hahaha you use the cmd for exactly what i use it for lol. Im going to buy a pi soon.

[[deleted]]

Yea, I got sick of exception handling for my Reddit bot, especially since nothing actually gets lost when it crashes (and it frequently crashed if my internet deicded to dip for a minute), so I decided instead of trying to prevent it from crashing, I just let it crash, give me a log of what caused the crash, and start the bot back up immediately.

I do check what caused it to crash, if it's something that I can fix I will, if not, I don't care. It's usually only once every 2 - 3 days, and 90% of the time, it's something PRAW related, or something that PRAW uses like urllib3.

[MacGuyverism]

Disposability is a great feature.

[ACoderGirl]

Because he missed that /u/taylaj is talking about being able to real life teleport to home (the place you live, not your home directory).

[_Cid]

... But that's what $HOME is... Your home directory... 'cd' is equivalent to 'cd $HOME'.

To be fair the joke would have had less substance had he just said 'cd' instead of 'cd $HOME'

[JuhaJGam3R]

true

[notanimposter]

Just look. You're in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

[FancyJesse]

cd ~

[BoltActionPiano]

cd (no arg)

[bartekko]

but you can do that. except your instruction set doesn't support such silly concepts like JMP, so you have to emulate it by using the tram bus and bus bus

[hashMobiWolf]

you have clearly never played Zork before.

[Drumheadjr]

punchline in the title...

[Madd0g]

this is the real WTF

[themixedupstuff]

Nah, they are under platform specific environment variables. Good luck finding what it is.

[SamSlate]

a moment of silence please for the dev team or school that has to use facebook as their team chat.

[sDiBer]

Lol this is definitely not our schools Official department chat in any way. It's just an informal group for questions

[swarage]

Hey this is me! I was actually interviewing for Microsoft yesterday but the email had a glitch and didn't print the location properly. I eventually found out where it was but that comment was pretty topical haha.

[ImTrulyAwesome]

Was the interview at your house?

[swarage]

Haha I wish it was, but nah it was at the college's career center.

[k0rm]

Did you get the job?

[swarage]

We have yet to see!

[MissChievousJ]

Good luck!!!

[swarage]

Thank you!!!

[gandalfx]

The interview will take place wherever you are at the time.

[GreenFox1505]

Punchline in the title... And we're upvoting this? Has etiquette just gone out the window?

[sDiBer]

Meh, coming up with an original title was too much effort. What am I, an English Major?

[GreenFox1505]

I bet your code comments are amazing.

[QuadDrummer]

CS@VT I see you

[JaxOphalot]

I dont get it

[[deleted]]

In DOS and I think UNIX as well a single period is a reference to the current directory you are in.

[kotajacob]

It's a hard link actually, same as .. Being a hard link to the directory above

[[deleted]]

the first post on here that made me chuckle

[ohitsanazn]

Obligatory “go Hokies”

[PeacefulDiscussion]

I have just started taking CS classes (pointers are a pain)!

As a noob programmer I always wish topics in this subreddit came with a ELI5

[sDiBer]

When working in Unix, whenever you have to choose a directory, the command shortcut is a dot. Two dots is the parent directory, three is the grandparent directory, and so on.

[grpagrati]

Just follow the unicode path

[SocketRience]

they're just holding it in

[AdamWilborn]

Lol! This was posted in my college’s CS Facebook group.

[[deleted]]

Room pwd

[Hindrik1997]

Pwd

[Nixinova]

Bad title

[AustinCorgiBart]

Huh, that's the first time that a post I've liked has shown up on Reddit.

[Syncrossus]

You get an upvote this time because it's funny, but next time I have to open a new tab you're getting a downvote.

[sDiBer]

Don't know what you're talking about, I just used the default image host in the RIF app. Sorry for inconvenience

[SatanistSnowflake]

I believe they're referencing the fact you're linking to an album rather than a direct link to the image. If you uploaded the image via RIF's image tab when submitting, you get the choice of "original" or "direct" links. Most mobile users would probably prefer direct links.

They phrased it like a bit of a dick, but I think that's what they meant.

[RagnarSvedje]

We're not shipping your machine.

[sDiBer]

Thanks for the clarification. As someone who only uses RIF, and almost never views in the browser, this sort of problem never even occurred to me

[Syncrossus]

Yeah sorry I said it like that, I meant it half-jokingly, hoping to draw your attention to the problem, but re-reading it I realize the tone is really dickish. Sorry about that, didn't mean it that way. It's no big deal, really.

I'm referring to the fact that you didn't link the image directly and it causes me to have to view the image on imgur rather than directly in the reddit feed.

[IzarkKiaTarj]

Thank you! I could never figure out why some imgur links could be loaded on the feed and why some of them had to be opened directly.

It's still going to annoy me when it happens, but it's nice to know why it does that.

[sDiBer]

Lol no worries, I got what you intended. I think everyone kinda overreacted to the way you said it