I seem to recall Italian behaves more like French in this partitive thing than like the Iberian languages, but that in Sicily the situation may reverse.
That is a dim echo, and is probably wrong in the particulars.
I think it's bullshit. Sometimes there's a baby in the car and sometimes there isn't. The sign is misleading unless it flashes when there is a baby in the car and doesn't flash when there isn't a baby in the car. And whether or not there's a baby in the car is irrelevant to me. It's relevant to the driver of the car. I understand the sign as an attempt to intimidate other drivers. — Bill Franke11 mins ago
@tchrist I am to write a pipeline to find files in a directory that have not been accessed for 30 days and compresses them. Is this right? It can't be.
> Canto: Le rose e violini/ questa sera raccontali a un’altra, violini e rose li posso sentire/ quando la cosa mi va se mi va, quando è il momento/ e dopo si vedrà
@cornbreadninja Yes, in your pipeline. find . -mtime +30 lists them. Are you trying to compress the names, or the contents? The contents, right? So find ... | xargs compress -v.
hmm... the man page I'm reading doesn't seem to specify either way. I was under the impression that it essentially put the input file's line on the command line of the command, so your echo foo bar example would call cmd twice with two args each.
anyway, the -0 mode is good for handling whitespace in filenames, which I have lots of.
So I'm trying to find documentation that explains that xargs works that way and I can't seem to find it in the GNU docs. Clearly it is working that way but I can't believe I never knew that.
[Varys listens to the bells toll the alarm before the battle] Lord Varys: I've always hated the bells. They ring for horror. A dead king, a city under siege... Tyrion Lannister: A wedding. Lord Varys: Exactly.
@Reg When you wake up, could you please explain, or even just hazard a guess, what this low-quality autoflagging on ELU is about? It does not happen on SO, and I wonder whether it actually helps in a way distinct from what the low-quality review queue. Thanks, now go back to sleep.
@Rob Looks like it takes two just disputed flags to dispel it. Still, hm.