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Crontab
on June 17, 2017
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Curl doesn’t spew binary anymore
I am sympathetic to your comment because it feels like we are babying users. To me, this is no different than when FreeBSD and GNU modified the rm command to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot.
shawnz
on June 17, 2017
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I thought they changed it to prevent buggy scripts from executing rm with empty variables? That's not necessarily the fault of the user.
pcwalton
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> To me, this is no different than when FreeBSD and GNU modified the rm command to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot.
Which was the right change. It prevents data loss for negligible added complexity.
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