Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:53:44 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: jrisom@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm -R Message-ID: <5132c948.kFZOe3OEy%2BVGm3JP%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <5132AAD6.5060301@gmail.com> References: <51321FAE.2010803@webrz.net> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EBE870@ltcfiswmsgmb21> <CAAPNFHQLW7bDmWQ6UvLiSbk38F6h67EzXAfwfRLmQCijLTcBcg@mail.gmail.com> <5132AAD6.5060301@gmail.com>
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Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> wrote: > But google and other search engines treats words([A-Za-z0-9]) > starting with - as meaning exclude results with this, even when > obvious it's about unix commands. It can be rather annoying > when searching for help. This comment suggests a new translation of GNU: Google's Not Unix (although it may well be _hosted on_ a Unix variant). Absent some very advanced AI, nothing is "obvious" to a computer :) The "-" character means different things in different environments. When you know what command is needed, the manpage is usually the best reference. Save the search engines for when you _don't_ know which command to use -- and even then you probably should try "man -k" or "apropos" first.
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