Re: Making copies of files

[michael-franzese]

From catb.org

"Much of what looks like rudeness in hacker circles is not intended to give 
offense."
"It may help you cope with our eccentricities if you think of us as being 
brain-damaged."

Thank you for helping me

Regards

> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2021 at 8:39 AM
> From: "Eli Schwartz" <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
> To: michael-franzese@gmx.com, "Greg Wooledge" <greg@wooledge.org>
> Cc: help-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Making copies of files
>
> On 4/2/21 4:06 PM, michael-franzese@gmx.com wrote:
> > Well, until you get knowledgeable enough to answer other people's questions.
> > I only know of few people that don't talk to anyone.  It was a rather simple
> > question and was not looking to frustrate you.  In my field of work I try 
> > to help
> > rather than telling others that the reason they do not know is because they 
> > are
> > lazy.  We all need advisors if we are to progress without repeating the
> mistakes
> > or toil of those before us.  Believe me that many in computing are lazy
> and prefer
> > to automate, which is good ;)
>
>
> http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#beprecise
>
> People here are less bothered by you asking questions in order to learn,
> and more bothered by your completely inconsiderate habit of asking
> extremely bad questions that:
>
> - waste the time of everyone providing FREE customer support here
> - don't actually help you learn
> - demonstrate that you're the wrong type of lazy, you're not trying to
>   (learn to) be more efficient but rather to be less efficient, while
>   distributing the cost of the inefficiency onto other people
>
> --
> Eli Schwartz
> Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
>
>