Comments on: Linux annoyances http://marc-abramowitz.com Rocking the blogosphere Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:42:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chris http://marc-abramowitz.com/linux-annoyances/comment-page-1/#comment-298071 Chris Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:26:53 +0000 http://marc.abramowitz.info/linux-annoyances/#comment-298071 There is a program called alien apparently that converts between rpm and deb and back again, but if it has any scripts inside that are remotely complex then it will fail and you may as well have been given a zip file. I wish they would standardize on one of them and then work on interoperability, making sure that you could install the same file on both Ubuntu and Fedora without modification. Quite a lot of the command line utilities don't have flags that are present in similar utilities. This is a source of endless frustration for me :) unlink and rm optionally going to a trash folder first is a great idea, I would use it. Although that is just one of many potentially dangerous tools and you can't ensafe-enate all of them without losing functionality, ie. mv, echo "" > valuable_file.txt etc. But yeah, unlink is arguably the most destructive so it does deserve special treatment. There is a program called alien apparently that converts between rpm and deb and back again, but if it has any scripts inside that are remotely complex then it will fail and you may as well have been given a zip file. I wish they would standardize on one of them and then work on interoperability, making sure that you could install the same file on both Ubuntu and Fedora without modification.

Quite a lot of the command line utilities don’t have flags that are present in similar utilities. This is a source of endless frustration for me :)

unlink and rm optionally going to a trash folder first is a great idea, I would use it. Although that is just one of many potentially dangerous tools and you can’t ensafe-enate all of them without losing functionality, ie. mv, echo “” > valuable_file.txt etc. But yeah, unlink is arguably the most destructive so it does deserve special treatment.

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