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    submitted 1 year ago by darcy to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    so that everytime you launch a terminal, your neofetch data is displayed. Because wow, neofetch!!!

    It doesn't really make sense, since the data would be outdated anyway if piped into .bashrc that way...

    [–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

    But .bashrc is executed, not displayed.

    Maybe they meant to say echo neofetch >> ~/.bashrc.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    It won't work. It's a dangerous command because a single > destroys your .bashrc. You may want either echo 'neofetch' >> .bashrc or neofetch | sed -e 's:%:a:g' | sed -e "s:^\\(.*\\)$:printf '\1\\\\n':" >> .bashrc or something of that kind.

    EDIT: tested out the latter command

    [–] darcy 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    true!! i meant echo neofetch >> .bashrc

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Who's the true noob now? Smh

    (/s)

    [–] darcy 9 points 1 year ago

    actually. i meant neofetch > bashrc, as in neofetch is better. checkmate

    /s

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    It's a dangerous command because a single > destroys your .bashrc.

    This is why you have a dotfiles repository, you noob!