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		pzmarzly 71 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Make.ts Fair. My bash scripts only broke 3 times over the years: - when ls started quoting filenames with spaces (add -N) - when perl stopped being installed by default in CentOS and AlmaLinux (had to add dnf install -y perl) - when egrep alias disappeared (use grep -E)

meindnoch 70 days ago [–]

>- when ls started quoting filenames with spaces (add -N)

Your fault: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

oblio 70 days ago | [–]

Kinda tells you everything you need to know about the design of the system when using it the default way is utterly unsafe.

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