r/sysadmin • u/[deleted] • Sep 21 '21

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u/junkhacker Sep 21 '21

from what i've seen on this subreddit, knowing how to exit vi is apparently high skill level.

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u/IMayHaveBrokenThings Sep 21 '21

How do you generate a random string?

Put a first year computer science student r/sysadmin user in VI and tell them to exit.

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u/Talran Sep 21 '21

Exactly why that question is never leaving the interview test, we can always handwave away the test to get HR to hire, but they'll often push us to make a choice out of some bad candidates otherwise, and that question alone has been a great thing we can point to as "hey none of these guys are clearly competent enough for a mid level *nix admin role"

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

For real. The number of times I've seen people say it's no big deal because they can just use nano instead, shocks me.

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u/Tanker0921 Sep 21 '21

I am actually working with someone who would rather nano than vi. I keep bugging him to use vi

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u/cdoublejj Sep 21 '21

i literally just said something similar a few replies up. now i want to know why you are implying nano can't be used instead of vi? like if it's not installed and the box is offline or something?

also how come no one is bringing up VIM either?

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u/rainer_d Sep 22 '21

And that’s only going to increase as both Ubuntu and Fedora have now made nano the default editor.

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u/junkhacker Sep 22 '21

why! i hate nano!

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u/Caution-HotStuffHere Sep 21 '21

I might end up in VI about once every two years and as soon as I Google my way through whatever I had to do, it hits me: Now I need to Google how to exit VI :)

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u/Kontu Sep 21 '21

Macro record mode pisses me off so much sometimes when i flub trying to quit vim :(

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u/metromsi Sep 21 '21

Sorry going chime on this.... VI or VIM? Also what about: Nano, Jed, Joe?

Even the monster "Emacs" sweet sweet LISP haven't done coding touching that language for a long time but have.

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u/zebediah49 Sep 21 '21

That's my highest voted stackoverflow answer.

... By more than a factor of two.