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  • Verify the commands by looking them up in the docimentation. So if the advice is to run foo --bar afile first do man foo or foo --help and check what the command does and what option --bar does.

    Good documentation, i esepicially like the gentoo docs and also the arch docs for this, will specifically say run this command where these options are added to do a thing.

    Don’t run anything where you don’t know what it will do based on the docukentation, so not based on the surrounding text where you are copying froom saying trust me bro.

    But of course this can end up being a lot of effort and is just a long way of saing rtfm.












  • its not as bad as it sounds. But it is the other side of the coin of academic freedom. You can do what you want, but that just means i end up wanting to do everything and then of course failing to finish evreything. But i have learned the solution is to find collaborators, and to accept that some things will simply not get done. The only problem is that the things that do not get done are sometimes important, even if they are not the most interesting (such as filing travel reimbursement forms). TL:DR no worries but do think carefully before going for a phd, there is very little external structure