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I think this snippet needs some context. In all contexts that I can imagine, the first line should actually be if which jq &>/dev/null; then brew install

I think this snippet needs some context. In all contexts that I can imagine, the first line should actually be if which jq &>/dev/null; then brew install jq fi

playpause 7y ago
That seems more reasonable, but it's not what the author wrote. He precedes the snippet with "Don’t try to install things with brew if brew is not installed", so his intention does seem to be to swallow errors silently, which is definitely weird.
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- pletnes 7y ago
  He might want his .bashrc to work on both macos and linux.
  - 00N8 7y ago
    IME .bashrc already doesn't work the same on OS X, though, so that's still a weird reason.
    - zeroimpl 7y ago
      Likely due to using the older version of bash preinstalled on Mac. Installing a new one and it should be virtually identical.