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To be fair, this blog article is not much about python but more about the bash (shell), the weirdness of quoting and the miracles of exec(3).
by ktpsns 5y ago
To be fair, this blog article is not much about python but more about the bash (shell), the weirdness of quoting and the miracles of exec(3).
- callfx 5y agoI don't get it either. This is pretty basic shell knowledge. Is the goal to have at least one Python article on the front page every day?
- teddyh 5y agoWell, it also wouln’t have worked if not for Python ignoring raw quoted strings. It’s those two behaviours of the two languages which makes this limited polyglot script possible.