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> It should still be `printf '%s\n' "$(command)"` for portability Damn that’s ugly though. Not much better than Perl in terms of characters soup. And Perl has
by kergonath 5y ago
> It should still be `printf '%s\n' "$(command)"` for portability
Damn that’s ugly though. Not much better than Perl in terms of characters soup. And Perl has a massive advantage with its deep integration of regexes.
- hnlmorg 5y agoPerl's character soup is because it's an evolution of sed and awk so Perl adopted many of the UNIX shell idioms.