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1. Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 16:57:33 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

   The best bash script of the year.

   • Efi (nap pet) 🐱💤 (efi@chitter.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 17:00:24 CEST Efi (nap pet) 🐱💤

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     @ekaitz_zarraga isn't there a better way to chech paths? pretty sure [[ has flags for that

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 17:00:24 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • Efi (nap pet) 🐱💤

     @efi I'm complaining, I didn't write this.

     First, [[ is a bashism, so it's better to go just for [ (which is `test`, but come on... it looks better if you use the [), and sure, there are better ways to check strings... they use the x"" trick which is one of the worst tricks ever

   • ruffni@mstdn.io's status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 17:02:18 CEST ruffni

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     @ekaitz_zarraga i stumbled over this today too (in U-Boot, so Hush). i guess this catches empty strings

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 17:02:18 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • ruffni

     @ruffni sure that's the goal! but there are better ways to do that I think...

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 17:53:55 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • ruffni

     @ruffni [ -z $VAR ] ?

   • ruffni@mstdn.io's status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 17:53:56 CEST ruffni

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     @ekaitz_zarraga i'm listening...?

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 18:22:05 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • ruffni

     @ruffni I mean: man test ftw

   • ruffni@mstdn.io's status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 19:58:46 CEST ruffni

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     @ekaitz_zarraga they are not equivalent, though. if $VAR is not defined in the env, then `test -z $VAR` returns 0, but `test "" = $VAR` fails completely, which can be desirable

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 20:03:04 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • ruffni

     @ruffni and but in any case the x"" is needed? there's no other fucking way?
     has to be

   • ruffni@mstdn.io's status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 21:27:26 CEST ruffni

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     @ekaitz_zarraga i smell legacy

   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 21:27:26 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • ruffni

     @ruffni yeah, it's the old way to do it, that's why I was mentioning this