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What's your "Oh fuck, that actually worked!" Linux moment that made you feel like a wizard? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, my high bar that I have yet to beat, was the time I pivoted the running OS (ubuntu) into RAM over SSH so I could unmount and image the boot drive without rebooting and loading a live USB (Which would have required a ticket with my provider to enable IPMI)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

When I actually get an awk/sed command to work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I've had the 1980's awk book seemingly "forever", but use awk so infrequently I always need to look things up.