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Re:Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 yrs with the leading K... by ahoka on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:49PM (#38649127)
Does not beat the “BIND zone files generated by m4 macros from a shell script”, I had the honor having to modify. Comes close second, though.
Re:Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 yrs with the leading K... by cheekibreeki2 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:20PM (#38649426)
No raw sendmail.cf? :)
Re:Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 yrs with the leading K... by doubled112 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:00PM (#38649742)
Thanks, that little twitch under my eye just started up.

I worked at an org where an admin went a little rogue and updated the config without using the macro file. Another admin didn't realize. Well, didn't realize until it was too late.

Re:Pitfalls of Helm – Insights from 3 yrs with the leading K... by rwmj on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:49AM (#38652591)
autoconf (configure.ac) files are also m4 hell, with some whitespace surprises.