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To give a more solid example, they don't understand why npm test works and why they don't need npm "test"
by Izkata 4y ago
To give a more solid example, they don't understand why
npm test
works and why they don't need
npm "test"
- alganet 4y agoThat's just lazy. How that works is on any shell man page. If you fiddle with it a little bit you figure it out: set -- "foo" echo $# set -- foo echo $# set -- "foo bar" echo $# set -- foo bar echo $# Of course, people just want their commands to run and not learn a whole new language. Then I come back to my initial point: the language itself is small and easy to remember once you internalize it, what makes it scary is the umbrella of different command line utilities that _seems_ to be a part of the language but it's not.