Oh I love the “walk me through what I’m about to do” concept. Dry runs should be more common – especially in shell scripts…
The world would be a better place if every install.sh
had a --help
, some nice printf
’s saying “Moving this here” / “Overwrite? [Y/N]”, and perhaps even a shoehorned-in set -x
.
Hope your r/w wasn’t eaten up by the subfolder incident (that I presume happened) :P
What a convenient method!
I’ve always done the “look at a clock twice” thing, but…
Haha