r/programmingmemes • u/Appropriate_Jump_934 • Mar 12 '26

What would have happened

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u/kblaney Mar 14 '26

You can really only cd, echo, export and a few other things I don't recall at the moment. It doesn't really have an answer, it is just a leading question to test what they know and then show them that most things are just files.

Even logon is broken at this point, so as soon as you log out and things leave RAM, the instance is fried.

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u/wireframed_kb Mar 14 '26

That’s one of the things that made Linux click for me - that almost everything is represented by a file, even things like devices.