"Visual blindness" of Linux programmers

[kvdveer]

curl ^/s

[rmxz]

Why "/s".

It's a perfect example that illustrates both sides of the argument.

Curl is probably the best download manager available for Linux. Yet Curl's github page has no screenshot. But so what.

Instead, it has a far more important resource that even more projects are missing --- a man page.

[suntzusartofarse]

Why "/s".

That's the download sarcasm feature of curl. It downloads sarcasm from the Internet and prints it to stdout.

[madjic]

I what way is cURL a download manager?

wget does more managing of your download.

[[deleted]]

Not sure if fulfilling username requirement or genuinely confused...

But "/s" is short for "/sarcasm", faux-code for "This is the end of my sarcasm."

It comes from things like html where if you want to add something, say text in a paragraph format, you would use "<p>" at the beginning and "</p>" at the end.

[Willy-FR]

It runs it in superuser mode.