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by halfastack 2741 days ago
> I'm pretty happy that 'rm foo' doesn't say anything, and typically I find motion a distraction.

It has happened to me on several occasions that I accidentally ran "rm -rf /some/dir/owned/by/root" without root permissions and got so much "permission denied" text it made me literally nauseated. There's something about a quickly moving wall of text on my terminal that makes me sick when there's a ton of it (4-5s of moving text tends to be when I have to look away).

Quite an annoying to have I must say :/.