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[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 2 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@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

true!! i meant echo neofetch >> .bashrc

[–] xan1242@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Who's the true noob now? Smh

(/s)

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 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!