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1. Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Feb-2022 19:45:59 UTC Ben Zanin

   Terrible Shell Script Reads Six Types Of Input Files To Produce Four Different Outputs In Ways Never Intended By A Loving God

   "It was never supposed to be this way," sobbed local culprit, clutching an antique text editor and a copy of shellcheck(1). "And I need to add two more kinds of inputs tomorrow morning."

   "I just hope nobody ever see this."

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   • Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Feb-2022 19:46:14 UTC Chris Siebenmann

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     @gnomon Ten years from now: an intern's tweet about 'this crazy old shell script I found in production (and now I have to update it)'.

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   • Federico Mena Quintero (federicomena@mstdn.mx)'s status on Thursday, 03-Feb-2022 01:57:18 UTC Federico Mena Quintero

     in reply to

     @gnomon currently ripping my CDs with abcde which is a big ass shell script, so this is a bit too on the nose.

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