Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "So Many Linux Terminal Commands Do The Same Thing" video.

  1. 8:44 If you want a ready-made empty file to demonstrate your point, try /dev/null.
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  2. I thought it would be worthwhile to back up the partition tables on my disks, just on the off chance they get corrupted somehow. I use “sfdisk -d” for this. This can be restored without overwriting the boot loader. Do the other partitioning tools offer similar functionality? I remember being scared off parted some years ago because it could not accurately restore partition locations. I think that might be fixed now.
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  3. One of the first things seasoned Unix admins used to do when setting up a new system, was install the GNU utilities. Because they invariably worked better than the vendor’s own versions. These days, of course, everything that can legally call itself “Unix” is extinct, so the problem has solved itself another way.
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  4. Don’t you mean, “Put that through cat into your pipe and smoke it”?
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