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07:16
can I post requests here? unix.stackexchange.com/questions/478340/… is unlikely to provide any value to future visitors
@tripleee I’ve voted to delete it
thanks!
is there a process or previous discussion or do I just plunge ahead here?
@tripleee I’m not aware of anything here. On Retro.SE this is the sort of scenario where someone might post a list of questions on Meta (a single Meta question with a list of questions to deal with), but I don’t remember that happening here... In most cases the deletion bot deals with useless, closed questions, but obviously not those that get upvoted.
07:36
but so no objections to bringing these up here if I come across more?
@tripleee not from me!
 
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10:54
People, please take a look at this answer https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/666802/232326

It is a very old question, but the answer is a completely new way to solve it. It took some time to get it exactly right and I would regret that the idea would remain hidden. Thanks.
 
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12:11
@tripleee I've mod-deleted it. For future requests, you could use the "in need of moderator intervention" flag, but don't flood us with these :-) If it needs to be discussed, bring it here or to the meta site if it's a bigger issue.
12:28
@Kusalananda thanks, not doing anything systematic on U&L so mod flag will be fine for now
@ImHere with Bash at least you can use the arithmetic expression as a condition so you could avoid the [ ... ] around the ((...))
and also the dollar sign
not working in Busybox
/ # (( 1 > 0 )) && echo yes
sh: 1: not found
also not in ash
@tripleee and now you probably have a file named 0 ;-)
inside a Docker container, so it's not going to be long-lived (-:
13:01
Congrats @ilkkachu on your recent 100k milestone!
And I see @terdon is getting very close to 200k...
13:39
@ilkkachu yes without knowing about chat.SE it is hard to find how
14:27
@StephenKitt "If I got 10 rep every time someone inadvertently wiped their hard drive..."
@AndrasDeak the untold tragedies behind upvotes on posts about data recovery
15:10
That's why backup is good, and distributed version control is better. But why choose?
When your TeX file stops producing an error, and you don't know what you did...
15:23
celebrate and walk away slowly? :)
16:08
@tripleee The command has a $ in front of the (( ... )). That is needed to work correctly in sh.
/ # $(( 1 > 0 )) && echo yes
Sorry, should also have the test:
[ "$(( 1 > 0 ))" = 1 ] && echo yes
17:05
Any curl wizards here?
a few, occasionally! Do keep in mind that the right place for a real technical question is on the main site...
17:47
(Thanks!)

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