[CentOS-docs] Format for giving examples of commands

Ralph Angenendt ralph.angenendt at gmail.com
Sun Jun 17 17:42:02 EDT 2012


On 17.06.2012 22:23, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:

> The main problem with copy and paste, I think, is that usually a 
> carriage return is automatically added at the end, and so the command is 
> immediately executed. Forcing users to copy and paste individual bits 
> does nothing to prevent this.

Yes, but you cannot copy&paste in one go, thus maybe destroying *all*
data on your machine (but only a bit of it) :)

For my lazyness c&p in one go would be better, but for getting me to
think about something, this is better.

Regards,

Ralph



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