On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:26:00 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:

> >>>>Then you should understand the need for detailed error reports and  
> reading the output from the various commands.
> 
> I always set verbosity to very high or max...

What's the point if you don't include the output is your posts/rants?
 
Anyway, all verbose does is hide the important messages among a load of
trivial messages about everything working as it should.

> Back in the good old days there was this OS called DOS. All of it's
> commands told you what they were and what they were doing by default,
> and were, almost universally quite enjoyable to use. =\
> 
> These days you just get the next command prompt, and have no idea how
> much your previous command might have deleted or otherwise screwed up.

Succeed quietly, fail noisily, it's the Unix way.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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