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Yeah. Sometimes a "barrier to entry" on running commands serves as an important forced pause to help prevent people from charging headfirst into dangerous options they don't understand.
It's something I often have to consider at work. It's not too hard to script out ways to make it easier to do certain things, but is the trade off of making it easier to do accidentally or without understanding the full effects worse than the hassle of doing it the "hard way"?
Yes, let's get a list of all machines in this network segment, then loop through sending shutdown commands so everything is ready for the hardware move!
What do you mean that the switch itself is in the list of machines? And that I just shut it off prematurely, so now we need to shut down everything locally... shit.
(Details fudged to protect the guilty)