Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)
by jrumbut on Friday August 12, 2022 @04:07AM
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Learn something new every day!
And I wish we had a stronger word than unportable for echo. You see that word tossed around on shell scripting resources where the only system it applies to is a 30 year old version of ksh and it only blows up on a full moon when passed a filename with a literal form feed \f, but echo is a practical portability problem.
And I wish we had a stronger word than unportable for echo. You see that word tossed around on shell scripting resources where the only system it applies to is a 30 year old version of ksh and it only blows up on a full moon when passed a filename with a literal form feed \f, but echo is a practical portability problem.