The Brads - The Designer’s Guide to Avoiding Terminal
February 7th, 2012
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Erik
February 7, 2012 at 8:39 amThis reminds me of a close friend of mine who exactly does the same every time.
Giulia
February 7, 2012 at 9:19 amYou are pure evil :D
Noel
February 7, 2012 at 9:22 amIs he running Windows? Or are forward- and back-slashes reversed?
Also: It’s funny ‘cause it’s true.
Eli Gundry
February 7, 2012 at 10:21 amBut once you get awesome with the terminal, you’ll never use anything else. Vim has made me into a terminal master.
Brian
February 7, 2012 at 11:38 amAnother way is to say “forward slash” instead of “slash”.
fluffy
February 7, 2012 at 1:03 pm/ is a slash (also called “forward slash”)
\ is a backslash
I give a pass to non-commandline-junkies for not knowing this stuff. However, one of the IT guys at work has to be taught basic commands like “killall” and the difference between the slashes too. And they’re the ones running the network and mandating policy.
redwall_hp
February 7, 2012 at 2:18 pmYay, someone else got in first on the slash-vs-backslash issue. It really bothers me when the Windows-brainwashed get it backwards…
Runaway1956
February 7, 2012 at 3:44 pmI’ve done that, in other situations. The job has to be done, so I start it. Someone has the time to stand around watching me - so I start screwing things up. It doesn’t take long before that someone decides he’d rather do the job, than to see me breaking things. ;^)
Mike
February 7, 2012 at 4:26 pmoh man this is spot on
btreecat
February 8, 2012 at 12:02 amForwad slashes are the propper way to do things last time I checked.
web designer
February 8, 2012 at 7:51 amI have done that. simpler thing that make me to have laugh now, when i look back into the past. I have just twitted this page @WebDesigner_Iw
child anxiety treatment
February 8, 2012 at 4:20 pmHaha. I am most definitely like that a lot of times.
Mike
Stomme poes
February 9, 2012 at 9:45 amPsssh… it’s “(reverse) solidus” for us unicode weenies.
I seriously could not imagine getting any work done without the command line. How the hell do you guys do it??
Bjørn
February 9, 2012 at 10:23 amSo I see some people are taking issue with the forward slash (/) vs backslash (\) thing. I actually find that the more I use the terminal, the more often I have to use the escape character, and getting that wrong can result in much worse things than getting a pathname wrong.
Nate Klaiber
February 15, 2012 at 5:23 pmOr another title could be:
“How to become an irrelevant web designer”
Vic DivechaRuthvick Divecha
February 15, 2012 at 6:53 pmTerminal Illness
Jun
April 3, 2012 at 6:02 pmI really want to share this on google+
Can you add a G+ button on your page? 
Roberto
April 15, 2012 at 5:17 pmhahaha great idea. let the other guy do it.