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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by ptspts on Friday June 04, 2021 @10:16AM (#27393824)
This doesn't work if $0 contains whitespace. Fix it by using "$0" instead.
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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by enriquto on Friday June 04, 2021 @11:02AM (#27394279)
LOL. What kind of savage runs a script with whitespace in its name?
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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by oblio on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:41PM (#27398196)
What kind of savage OS doesn't even have a standard text encoding for its filenames and even allows its filenames to be binary?

Just because we wish something weren't so, doesn't make it as we wish it.

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