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So I was thinking of silly things I've done that pseudo-broke my system, or made me think I had a broken system. Like the time I put the cmd :

exit

in my ~/.bash_aliases file and I had to open a text editor to fix it because that broke all the terminals on my machine.

I'm curious what other silly things users have done to confuse themselves.

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[–] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 6 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I made alias q=exit for some reason and now I accidentally close the terminal when I press ;q and enter 😭

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Why would you type ; in a terminal though? Are you using it as a code editor?

[–] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Such is the power of a habit, I use vim often

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 11 hours ago

God bless your innocent soul.