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Re:Explain Shell by sjrd on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:35PM (#13989819)
Very nice! I fed it one of my favorite commands:

    git branch --merged | grep -v master | xargs -n 1 git branch -d
and it dealt with it reasonably well. The only part it couldn't understand was `branch -d` at the end. In other words, it was not capable of recognizing that the non-option arguments to `xargs` should actually be recursively interpreted as a command-line.
Re:Explain Shell by tsneed290 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:48PM (#13989902)
TIL that git calls itself "the stupid content tracker"
Re:Explain Shell by nonsince on Thursday March 30, 2017 @08:04AM (#13994626)
Pretty funny seeing as the main complaint about git is that it's too complex
Re:Explain Shell by elevensies on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:58PM (#13989996)
I also tried a command with xargs, it seemed to do a pretty good job: http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=find+.+-type+f+-print0+%...