Stupid Unix Tricks

Re:Stupid Unix Tricks by jolmg on Thursday October 17, 2019 @11:37AM (#21283185)

It seems you miswrote, or the author corrected himself. Right now it's:

  if which brew >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
      brew install jq
  fi

Which would hide the error message. The code you posted outputs:

  brew not found
  /dev/null not found

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Re:Stupid Unix Tricks by lmm on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:12PM (#21283514)

It's impractical to determine whether Hacker New's undocumented formatting language is going to eat any given angle bracket ahead of time. I suspect OP wrote something correct and the site has mangled it.

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Re:Stupid Unix Tricks by asaph on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:56PM (#21287999)

It got messed up when I was trying to format it, unfortunately. But my point still stands.

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