[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:59:35PM -0400, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> > G. Matthew Rice wrote:
> > > PS - You still better know the switch and parameters that are used all the
> > > time. An LPIC-1 that doesn't know 'ls -l'...umm, well isn't an
> > > LPIC-1.
> >
> > But ... but ... I could look it up in the man page!
>
> Exactly. A good admin knows where to find the required knowledge
> quickly.
LMAO. To both of you. Len, I think that Etienne was being facetious here.
There's definitely a balance here but I still don't agree with a pure 'no
option testing' ideology.
Otherwise, the job interviews I give would degrade to "here is 'man man' and
that's all you get...now build me a web server farm". And just wait to see
how long he takes.
Knowing options that are used all the time is a way to show experience. If
you have to continually look up the 'c' option for tar or the -l option to
ls, you just haven't been around the block enough times.
That said, don't blow this out of perspective. These types of questions are
getting rarer as we improve the tests overall.
BTW, the first question on a Perl test that we used to give prospective
senior level Perl OO developers (not CGI hackers) was:
# 1. What does this statement do?
bless { _h => 'Hi' }, 'Hi';
It was difficult to find someone that could answer that sensibly (or at all).
I would argue that this question is akin a ls -lr question. The -r comes
from the { ... } part which does obfuscate (but not really).
Regards,
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