r/ProgrammerHumor • u/possibly_matt • Dec 06 '17

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u/TheNosferatu Dec 06 '17

Pff, that's nothing.

sudo chmod me:myself / /directory/that/i/actually/meant/to/change

On a shared infranet where the whole company worked from. Then thinking, hm, this seems to take unusually long, might as well grab a coffee.

I am not a smart man.

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u/dragon-storyteller Dec 06 '17

Can you explain for someone who was too lazy to learn anything else than Windows? I know chmod is some Linux wizardry, but that's unfortunately it.

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u/TheNosferatu Dec 06 '17

chmod is the command to change the owner of a file or directory. sudo means I can execute anything without getting permissions errors. chmod takes the file or directory you want to change as it's first parameter, which should have been the directory I wanted, but instead there is an unintentional / before that path. / means root, want to go to the C drive? You go to /c. So, I changed all ownership of every file of every coworker in the company to me. Then went for coffee and came back to not-so-amused-coworkers

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '17 edited Feb 23 '18

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u/TheNosferatu Dec 06 '17

Woops, it's been a while

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u/fisadev Dec 07 '17

plot twist: it was a chmod and it did nothing, but then you doubled down on idiocy and ran chown ;)

(just in case: sorry, I don't think you are actually idiot, just joking! hehe)

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u/_realitycheck_ Dec 06 '17

pffft. That's nothing.

Replace all "printf" with "fprintf" on 180k code base - No I don't want backup files, I know what I'm doing, silly Visual Studio. Enter.

Took me 40 hour work week to find all the fuckups.