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by gnubison 5y ago
Do you think you could elaborate on how this works? It seems like a very ergonomic alternative to traditional footnotes.
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by gnubison 5y ago
Interesting project. Unfortunate that its name conflicts with one of nq’s executables ( https://github.com/leahneukirchen/nq ), but I’m not sure anything can be done about it.
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by gnubison 5y ago
…you know that there are more than three operating systems, right…?
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by gnubison 5y ago
None of them should respect IFS — that’s only for the shell.
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by gnubison 5y ago
Is this really your only takeaway? I agree, defining the acronym would be nice, but certainly it’s not infuriating.
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by gnubison 5y ago
Yes, iPhones automatically merge two dashes together as well.
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by gnubison 5y ago
They’re called “em dashes”, and they look like this: — You can find a Real, Genuine Em Dash™ at https://emda.sh , or insert one using ‘C-k - M’ in Vim or ‘Compose - - -’ on Linux — not sure about other platforms.
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by gnubison 5y ago
Yes :)
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by gnubison 5y ago
Hmm, great idea. We could build on Git as a storage medium, and we'd need a durable and reliable way to exchange patches. Something like ...email? $ man -k patches git-am(1) - Apply a series of patches from a mailbox gi
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by gnubison 5y ago
Globs work correctly in Bash (not “BASH”), even with spaces in filenames. Yes, you need to quote most variable substitutions[0], but globs are fine. [0]: except in the RHS of a variable assignment or after the ‘case’ keyword
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by gnubison 5y ago
It’s simple enough to use macos sed here instead of needing gsed: just use ‘-i ''’ instead of ‘-i’.
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by gnubison 5y ago
Unrelated, but can I ask about your prompt?
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by gnubison 5y ago
Would it really be simpler to have 100 lines of GUI setup and tear down, obscuring the most important part (the commands being run)?
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by gnubison 5y ago
> complicated The snippet GP mentioned includes only shell functions, invocations of restic, and echo commands. How could it be simpler?
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by gnubison 5y ago
Perl is certainly more powerful than sed or awk :)
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by gnubison 5y ago
Which(1) doesn’t necessarily return a non-zero exit code if it can’t find a program. Instead, the portable alternative for scripts is command -v.
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by gnubison 5y ago
It’s not like you can blame POSIX for this — they had to standardize existing behavior.
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by gnubison 5y ago
Honestly, ex mode would be such a good idea … if it didn’t clear the entire goddamn screen when it started up! The whole point of using a line editor is that it shouldn’t take up the entire screen.
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by gnubison 5y ago
The two are the same in anything other than vim.
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by gnubison 5y ago
POSIX does not specify /usr/bin/env, but the location is pretty much universal anyways.
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by gnubison 5y ago
POSIX does simplify things, diverging from historical practice, when it’s reasonably the only way to standardize stuff that arguably should be standardized. And the vast majority of scripts are easily converted to POSIX-compliant shell scr
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by gnubison 5y ago
Maybe one day you’ll try out OpenBSD and find that you actually like it… and then you’ll be hit by the force of hundreds of thousands of software developers who subscribe to the philosophy you describe above. Standards are important — th
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by gnubison 5y ago
That’s not usually how standards are supposed to work — a POSIX operating system should not reimplement Linux, it should only have to reimplement what’s portable to existing systems.
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by gnubison 5y ago
The standardized tooling is called POSIX, and you already have it installed — it’s easy enough to train the GNUisms out of your fingers and it will reward you in the end.
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by gnubison 5y ago
No need to use -c there: (fish)$ bash random.sh
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by gnubison 5y ago
macOS is about as standard of a Unix as you can get, apart from Linux with coreutils.
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by gnubison 5y ago
The OpenBSD people value both security and simplicity — I doubt that they would adopt Rust system-wide.
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by gnubison 5y ago
Comes from the ed command ‘g/re/p’ (g: for each line matching; re: regular expression; p: print)
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by gnubison 5y ago
That’s fair. Is that what links without Unicode support does? (Ignore all byte sequences it doesn’t recognize.) Also, I’d still love to know why you prefer stripping out non-ASCII characters — does this sentence become more readable to you
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by gnubison 5y ago
No.

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