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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

true!! i meant echo neofetch >> .bashrc

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who's the true noob now? Smh

(/s)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

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

/s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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

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