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Wow. I'm thinking I should bury my github in the yard out back. I've committed much greater atrocities. I've "remade" (in no particular order) find, rsync, geto
by noonespecial 14y ago
Wow. I'm thinking I should bury my github in the yard out back. I've committed much greater atrocities. I've "remade" (in no particular order) find, rsync, getopts, sort and even ls(1).
Sometimes you just need less of a grand old unix utility and you just want it to work the way you think it should to match your workflow. That's what unix is about.
(1) Did you know that if your system is missing ls?!! that you can replace it with: for i in * ; do echo $i; done
- hedwall 14y agoEven just "echo *" works.
- noonespecial 14y agoIt was a purposely locked down embedded system. If the entries printed across, the serial terminal didn't send anything past character #80. Using the loop puts each entry on its own line.