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Cycling in France

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1•jackhalford•56s ago•0 comments

What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

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State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

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Zig Package Manager Enhancements

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France's homegrown open source online office suite

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SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

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Ask HN: Is the CoCo 3 the best 8 bit computer ever made?

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I spent $10k to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex

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2•tosh•32m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why do readmes still use $ in copy-pasteable commands?

3•garyfirestorm•6mo ago
I often encounter this in docs/readmes `$ ls -lt` often renders with a copy button that you can easily click and when you paste it in terminal it shows up as `$ ls -lt` with an unnecessary $ causing an error $ command not found or something like that... wouldn't it make sense to just have `ls -lt` and not add the $ in front of it?

Comments

rzzzwilson•6mo ago
The "$" prompt is shorthand to indicate the command is run as a non-root user. If you see "# ls -lt" that indicates the command should be run as root. The problem lies with whoever set up the copy button to include the prompt as part of the copied command.
garyfirestorm•6mo ago
this is a widespread problem - many libraries, git repos follow this convention unfortunately
gibbitz•6mo ago
How do you specify this on GitHub markdown?
perrygeo•6mo ago
It's used in documentation mostly to distinguish the command from stdout. And it's verbatim what you see if you copy-paste from most default bash shells.