Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting things

Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by NateEag on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:15PM (#33359801)

Which works not just to preserve the previous statement from internal inconsistency, but also in regards to the incredibly useful Rule of Three (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_prog...).

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by palunon on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:34PM (#33360141)

> Which works not just to preserve the previous statement from internal inconsistency

It doesn't. You now have 4 numbers.

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by ndsipa_pomu on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:27PM (#33360966)

0, 1, 3, 4 and infinity - there's four numbers in this industry.

Five There's five numbers in this industry 0, 1, 3, 4, 5 and infinity

Wait, I'll come in again

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by tuatoru on Thursday October 27, 2022 @11:53PM (#33367482)

0, 1, 7, and indeterminate, IME.

The 7 being for design. If there are more than 7 boxes on the whiteboard, try again.

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by sargstuff on Friday October 28, 2022 @10:19PM (#33380353)

ah, log base 2 of 7 is 127 bits (aka 8, y 1).

Unicode character can have more than 7 font boxes associated with one character box and still be a valid determinate character form.

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by sargstuff on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:36AM (#33372793)

thought the industry was broken down in 8 bit increments (0, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc)

log base 2 of 4 is only 16bits

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by NateEag on Sunday October 30, 2022 @09:46PM (#33401101)

Good point. I'm not sure why I thought what I'd written above worked... shrug

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