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Re:Show HN: Unix-like personal webpage by rijoja on Monday July 17, 2017 @02:25PM (#14791095)
you are right, I started out with piping it into less, to see if you are right and damn it if you are not right. I thought he did something with delays in the output. How and why does this work?
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Re:Show HN: Unix-like personal webpage by idsout on Monday July 17, 2017 @02:50PM (#14791299)
ANSI escape sequences. Your terminal interprets them like move cursor to row x, column y. Set color green. Etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

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Re:Show HN: Unix-like personal webpage by rijoja on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @10:15AM (#14796645)
Interesting? but why does bash execute the code from standard output instead of simply displaying it to the user?
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Re:Show HN: Unix-like personal webpage by sp332 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:11PM (#14798759)
It's not bash. You can remove the shebang line and cat the file, and it still works. It's simply your terminal interpreting the ANSI codes and displaying the contents of the file.
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