Illecors@lemmy.cafe to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agoPeople using 'less' when they should be using 'fewer'message-squaremessage-square136fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down123
arrow-up1145arrow-down1message-squarePeople using 'less' when they should be using 'fewer'Illecors@lemmy.cafe to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agomessage-square136fedilink
minus-squareNotMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoWhat would " $ touch fewer $ fewer .bashrc " Do?
minus-squareMalix@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 months agobasically nothing/same “command not found”. “fewer” doesn’t have execute rights, nor does the next command use the fewer in current directory. But, taking all that into account and “doing it right…ish”: $ touch fewer $ chmod +x fewer $ ./fewer .bashrc #it outputs nothing, it's an empty script
What would
" $ touch fewer
$ fewer .bashrc " Do?
basically nothing/same “command not found”.
“fewer” doesn’t have execute rights, nor does the next command use the fewer in current directory. But, taking all that into account and “doing it right…ish”:
$ touch fewer $ chmod +x fewer $ ./fewer .bashrc #it outputs nothing, it's an empty script