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Post #AtICnLVLjYMO5C3Nho by [email protected] |
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Me too. |
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Post #AtIEGDuf8eEStDE9M8 by [email protected] |
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@elfin the oldest fear |
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Post #AtIEOKycl7H779wurg by [email protected] |
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@elfin I use dots and dashes. Spaces are for prompt kiddies. |
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Post #AtIF2u5fcuHRbJaYW8 by [email protected] |
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@elfin Me, too, but even as a non-dev, non-coder it still causes complications.… |
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Post #AtIG1bfajDvG8QKsRU by [email protected] |
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@elfin I will continue to avoid putting spaces into filenames until and unless … |
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Post #AtIMG3YyPzF2QJVubo by [email protected] |
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@elfin Yep, same, I still tend to use _ in my file names, although that's a… |
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Post #AtIMG3fM2GLUk6V0YS by [email protected] |
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@ainmosni @elfin Until you have to write the name somewhere that treats the hyp… |
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Post #AtIQxJf2qFqUcREk9Q by [email protected] |
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@elfin I actively remove them any chance I get |
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Post #AtIQxJkiVANmu1tGzY by [email protected] |
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@skotchygut Me too. Then I yell at the person that created the file. |
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Post #AtIQy0fuut5q1ayXyq by [email protected] |
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@elfin LOL TRUTH!! Seriously, though, sometimes it does turn into the asckii c… |
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Post #AtIR1Hge7jINedsUng by [email protected] |
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@elfin As you should be. Bash and its word splitting rules are still alive and … |
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Post #AtIR1HmflK7FxKhJC4 by [email protected] |
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@markstos Yeah ... RegEx and spaces in file names suck. |
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Post #AtIR1Ht3NbDiH7gP8i by [email protected] |
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@elfin And `for f in $files; { rm $f; }`Oops, bash split the args on spaces and… |
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Post #AtIR1HyN3pTQXcAeQa by [email protected] |
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@markstos @elfin in fairness, there's going to be a syntax that puts quotes… |
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Post #AtIR1p5bvvsBFcoOnI by [email protected] |
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@elfin I'm so old I twitch when using filenames longer than 8.3 |
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Post #AtIR1pBzYCydZPnUjw by [email protected] |
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@quantensalat You started with DOS/WIndows, I'm guessing. |
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Post #AtIR1pI1BnnVs6cJ8K by [email protected] |
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@elfin Yes, personally I started a bit later than my mates, with 486/33, DOS 6.… |
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Post #AtIR1pNgqiKo9hGpyS by [email protected] |
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@quantensalat I started with an Atari 400/800 (no biggie really) and then hit A… |
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Post #AtIR2SDQSoIUb9lgtE by [email protected] |
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@elfin This has nothing to do with age. As soon as you put the file on a web se… |
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Post #AtIR2SIk92YCreFwB6 by [email protected] |
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@MBrandtner ABSOLUTE TRUTH!!! I find that shit on my web servers and I WILL det… |
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Post #AtIR2h1ZPAj6WjKvzc by [email protected] |
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@elfin Same here ... my pattern: Only lowercase, no special characters, no spac… |
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Post #AtIR4XuoF8eKr43evA by [email protected] |
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@elfin Spaces in file names are a curse for writing scripts. |
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Post #AtIR97Xvi560WLXOgi by [email protected] |
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@elfin Mich gruselt der Accent grave (anstelle eines Apostrophs) in deinem Nutz… |
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Post #AtIRDKg6pNiiPIN7Am by [email protected] |
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@elfin No spaces, no special characters, no umlauts in file names... yes, I am … |
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Post #AtIRDUwmeF04FuFZYG by [email protected] |
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@elfin We are generation eight.three |
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Post #AtIRDV2oHpowYb4Nwe by [email protected] |
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@vigelienschI'm generation 6.3, because the first computer I used was a PDP… |
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Post #AtIRHmxhbxmtHmj3ui by [email protected] |
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@elfin #I-worked-at-a-company-that-had-a-VERY-specific-way-files-had-to-be-nam… |
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Post #AtIRIuzDGKaYSjyFzE by [email protected] |
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@elfin I_did_not_know_you_could_do_that. |
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Post #AtIRK43F2ozwrnOyci by [email protected] |
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@lbloch @elfin yeah, `sh` the same in 2025 |
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Post #AtIRKzSjaiG4vMldlw by [email protected] |
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@elfin hard same. |
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Post #AtIROJUHaxtltp4mmm by [email protected] |
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@MBrandtner @elfin … or use GNU Make’s wildcard function. |
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Post #AtIROuIWjdTo44rQ6C by [email protected] |
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@katzentratschen Ich habe das mit Absicht gemacht. |
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Post #AtIRSQmWPx0LgEZS7M by [email protected] |
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@elfin me too! |
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Post #AtIRTjpV5CW32vaTVQ by [email protected] |
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@elfin Dann nutzt du bestimmt auch heimlich Leerzeichen in überlangen Dateinam… |
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Post #AtIRTjvWinKvLcPHto by [email protected] |
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@katzentratschen Lange Dateinamen sind in Ordnung, Leerzeichen nicht. |
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Post #AtIRX8VxlHGCTR4Lqa by [email protected] |
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@elfin @kiki I still never put spaces in file names. I always use "_". |
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Post #AtIRY9fiwZVALx7XJA by [email protected] |
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@elfin oh yess I know that feeling! |
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Post #AtIRZaSKqYfriCXbIO by [email protected] |
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@elfin so glad I'm not the only one 😉 |
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Post #AtIRb00jJusfG4InU8 by [email protected] |
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@elfin It still helps avoid unnecessarily having to add quotes in commands. |
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Post #AtIRcIUy4KbQt144iu by [email protected] |
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@elfinNever feels right, does it? |
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Post #AtIRcIazhvQJBhst7I by [email protected] |
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@snork303 Why I use Camel Case for all my file names. |
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Post #AtIRcwn6GKsFqpr7XU by [email protected] |
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@elfin +1 |
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Post #AtIRdvca63hmVsP572 by [email protected] |
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@elfin i_can_relate.indeed |
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Post #AtIRf9GCs8xv6UWHmy by [email protected] |
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@pasci_lei Shells and spaces aren't friendly. |
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Post #AtIRg1kuGDbm7LIZ8a by [email protected] |
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@elfin considering the new generations lack of experience with the terminal, fi… |
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Post #AtIRg1tPkaPiXjHMOm by [email protected] |
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@drexer2) Learn cursive@elfin |
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Post #AtIRg1zROBEaqQ6AnA by [email protected] |
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@juliewebgirl @drexer *Snorts Really Hot Coffee). |
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Post #AtIRk4aHgZFe35G7vc by [email protected] |
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@elfin Well yeah, since I don't like having to use \ or quotes when accessi… |
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Post #AtIRlkrvxRAFTwJgsS by [email protected] |
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@neurovagrant @elfin I once had a system with one file with filename that had a… |
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Post #AtIRrYVionIotIh2Ei by [email protected] |
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@elfin pain in the arse to deal with on the command line. I don't do it. |
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Post #AtIRsIEcogxWhb31yS by [email protected] |
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@elfin This. |
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Post #AtIRsrr8NVYjBAKmMC by [email protected] |
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@elfin Yep, same here. |
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@elfin I showed this to my wife and she genuinely had no idea you didn’t need… |
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Post #AtIRtRHwdonl4S9BVQ by [email protected] |
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@capnjiggle 🤣🤣🤣 |
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Post #AtIRtwdI6VIQHdNAa8 by [email protected] |
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@elfin wise, not old. |
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Post #AtIRv9dDGCnUt6ufNA by [email protected] |
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@elfin is that ok? gezz I do _-__---_-__---- still :/ |
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Post #AtIRwwyfHKuYDmnrii by [email protected] |
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@elfin I feel caught out. |
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@elfin can't recall what project it was but I actually had a program I down… |
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Post #AtIS16Ry0A3Sl5UOZc by [email protected] |
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@lbloch Which is sort of my day job. Thus the problem. |
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Post #AtIS20AsorfDaJvXii by [email protected] |
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@elfin You should. There are still a lot of systems in production that can'… |
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Post #AtIUkiHcNyCT2FWcQi by [email protected] |
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@elfin @micahflee Well, yeah. |
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Post #AtIVYOj5N8FmrM42r2 by [email protected] |
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@elfin I'm not scared, but I don't do that just in case ;) |
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Post #AtJGwI40UTjkzXkEaG by [email protected] |
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@markstos @elfin I think it will work if you dorm "$f"Nevertheless sp… |
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Post #AtJUeiPhBNx6rNP3aq by [email protected] |
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@neurovagrant @elfin What about tabs in filenames? |
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Post #AtJVBU2Zdqptq6DHfM by [email protected] |
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@capnjiggle @elfin There's a reason Microsoft set Program Files as the defa… |
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Post #AtJVGCqezOOxxztPH6 by [email protected] |
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@catsalad @neurovagrant @elfin witchcraft. Next you're gonna suggest emojis. |
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Post #AtJW4jXVibepps1qtc by [email protected] |
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@bituur_esztreym @elfin What is this six character extension wizardry? |
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Post #AtJW4jebIFKSBrLVwm by [email protected] |
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@whybird @elfin oh, following up with the joke, was answering with underscores … |
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Post #AtJW4jlKtCiUWkUtRg by [email protected] |
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@bituur_esztreym @elfin ;) |
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Post #AtJWMRJeDCysWpzHjE by [email protected] |
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@quantensalat @elfin I was going to say: "I'm old enough that I had an… |
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Post #AtJWMRQ1pU5KqcyNfs by [email protected] |
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@zotnobot @elfin You sound like my friends back then :)Beginning of the 90s, yo… |
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Post #AtJWS4jx3qOKFTyigK by [email protected] |
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@CppGuy @vigeliensch @elfin And a floating point number could hold 6 characters… |
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Post #AtJWXhyCdIA1MkKWqe by [email protected] |
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@hokaff @elfin @kiki Umm. 👆 |
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Post #AtJX1MKldiJkwz1VCK by [email protected] |
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@MBrandtner @elfin I don't even understand why %20 is required... |
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Post #AtJX4rWe7tl0YfFYLA by [email protected] |
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@elfin @capnjiggle wait... Is that a universal "you don't have to do t… |
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Post #AtJXIyvjOQjTZqiRQ8 by [email protected] |
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@ainmosni @elfin Like Microsoft Windows shell still in 2025 🙈 |
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Post #AtJXJzFjg9ZcrqYID2 by [email protected] |
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@hokaff @elfin @kiki wait, we can use spaces in file names?! |
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Post #AtJXJzMpFnFFDprxGC by [email protected] |
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@kesertki @hokaff @elfin ikr, this is how I learn?! |
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Post #AtJXYVqjHXvg1CmXp2 by [email protected] |
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@elfin (Just realized now, I've replied in German to an English-speaking ac… |
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Post #AtJXb7m3FaReDbq61Q by [email protected] |
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@markstos @elfin worse, you’re ruling out make(1)—after all this time, I st… |
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Post #AtJXvk0QoZJSaIOcro by [email protected] |
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@andreasio @capnjiggle That's the general consensus. |
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Post #AtJYLlMWOWOoJu8Xjs by [email protected] |
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@elfin let alone non ascii characters. |
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Today I learned that Alfalfa is from the legume family. |
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Post #AtJYLzOSE8GPpx9HhA by [email protected] |
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@elfin I thought he was a Switzer. |
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@elfin underscore in all file names only! |
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Post #AtJpdyPCKz0hCpeqjQ by [email protected] |
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@elfin It was only last month, that downloading files using wget failed because… |
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Post #AtJpw5DJlLm3XBjicq by [email protected] |
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@goedelchen A URL typically ends at a space character. Therefore, if a URL cont… |
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Post #AtJqAP9oPUbVRSvSRk by [email protected] |
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@DamonHDThe PDP-11/34 I used didn't have floating point hardware (though ot… |
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Post #AtLIWx7Hp4d30hFCt6 by [email protected] |
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@elfin 100_percent. |
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@elfin Do you keep them under 8 characters? |
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@DarleneCypser My file names tend to read like run-on sentences. (Think "e… |
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Post #AtNhrVsVAyyfmc9Koy by [email protected] |
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@elfin One trick I learned from hackers was to write myself messages in directo… |
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Post #AtNhrVyAptVy4Cnrf6 by [email protected] |
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@DarleneCypser Tell your future me that the backup they've found won'&#… |
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Post #AuU5D9B1lkhJRTNHyy by [email protected] |
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@elfin so long as you don’t force me to set IFS we’ll get along just fine |
