Re:I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Prod...
by hinkley on Thursday May 05, 2022 @03:28PM
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I tend to write one script that emits a list of files, and another that takes a list of files as arguments.
It's simple to manually test corner cases, and then when everything is smooth I can just
script1 | xargs script2
It's also handy if the process gets interrupted in the middle, because running script1 again generates a shorter list the second time, without having to generate the file again.
When I'm trying to get script1 right I can pipe it to a file, and cat the file to work out what the next sed or awk script needs to be.
It's simple to manually test corner cases, and then when everything is smooth I can just
It's also handy if the process gets interrupted in the middle, because running script1 again generates a shorter list the second time, without having to generate the file again.When I'm trying to get script1 right I can pipe it to a file, and cat the file to work out what the next sed or awk script needs to be.