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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Why would you ~~pipe~~ edit: redirect neofetch into your .bashrc?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

so that everytime you launch a terminal, your neofetch data is displayed. Because wow, neofetch!!!

It doesn't really make sense, since the data would be outdated anyway if piped into .bashrc that way...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

But .bashrc is executed, not displayed.

Maybe they meant to say echo neofetch >> ~/.bashrc.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It won't work. It's a dangerous command because a single > destroys your .bashrc. You may want either echo 'neofetch' >> .bashrc or neofetch | sed -e 's:%:a:g' | sed -e "s:^\\(.*\\)$:printf '\1\\\\n':" >> .bashrc or something of that kind.

EDIT: tested out the latter command

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

true!! i meant echo neofetch >> .bashrc

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who's the true noob now? Smh

(/s)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

actually. i meant neofetch > bashrc, as in neofetch is better. checkmate

/s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's a dangerous command because a single > destroys your .bashrc.

This is why you have a dotfiles repository, you noob!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a redirection, not a pipe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly, that's bloat