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    [–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I didn't get that.

    Checked the man and it's not deprecated. So what does it have to do with "old"?

    [–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Nowadays most Linux users seem to use ssh user@host. When I was getting started, that didn't exist (or at least I was unaware of it) so I still frequently use the -l flag instead.

    Nothing wrong with it, just that at least I mostly encounter its use by experienced users.

    [–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    OIC. Good to know in case I ever have to work on some old CentOS 5 box lying around ever again.
    It also looks kinda proper, using that instead of the @, so when making shell scripts, I might want to prefer this.