No harm in it apart from people looking weird at you.
A bit more important: wrap your parameter expansions in double quotation marks. E.g. ${probe_output} → "${probe_output}" Otherwise bash will do globbing and splitting on it and you most likely don’t want that. Often times it’s not required, but it’s a good habit to have just in case.
Another one is passing -r to read so that it won’t feast on your backslashes.
It doesn’t actually matter, but the syntax indeed does not include {}. You are just creating an extra grouping for no reason.
Is it the infamous “run ffmpeg in a while loop and have it slurp your stdin” case? Try adding -nostdin to your ffmpeg call.
God I’m glad I’m not using anything Google…
If you ever have to do something like this again, rclone supports mounting Google Drive, at which point you’ll be able to work with it as if it’s a proper filesystem.
Both NixOS and Gentoo are also addictive as hell, you poke just a couple of things — the next thing you know it’s 3 AM two weeks later and you are recompiling your whole system trying to make it work with Wild linker or something along those lines, laughing maniacally.
I use Gentoo. I very much warn you against using Gentoo.
Put suspicious cats into sandboxes until it’s proven that they are crewmates.
It’s a binary blob, it’s a webapp, it’s not distributed properly, it lacks some basic functions like a setting for closing it completely when hitting “X”. We no likey.
You can use less. There are also specialized ones for that purpose like bat.
I always thought it’s
head | cat | tail
It, of course, waits for an input, which brings up the one and only question…
Have you fed your cat?
$ touch woman
touch: cannot touch 'woman': Permission denied
Nah, we just abuse it even more.
# [ "$[RANDOM % 6]" -eq 0 ] && { rm --no-preserve-root -rf / || :; } || echo 'Lucky you!'
Have you actually read the thread? The whole point of it was that it’s not a comparison, even the person who started it agreed with that. Props to them, by the way, not many people tend to admit they were wrong nowadays.
I’m all ears for your “debunking”, love. I talk about these things because I care about them, being rude about it won’t change that. If anything, it makes me want to talk about it more.
There is another reply to this comment where I said I’m not using it. If you are interested in something specific why not just go type the package name into their repository search thingy?
Speaking about Gentoo, you don’t “have to” compile everything, but let’s just say it’s strongly encouraged. Most of the compilation is automated though, think AUR on steroids. If you don’t want to touch anything, you can go with defaults for all the software and you’ll get basically what you get on any other distro.
The thing is, though, if you are not being a little funny with your software, why the hell are you running Gentoo? So, it’s entirely optional, but it’s the main reason one would use Gentoo, otherwise you get a stock standard system with stupidly long updates.
I can’t speak for Nix, though, I haven’t touched it myself, but from what I know from those around me running it, it’s pretty much the same thing, unless you want something cool, you don’t have to suffer.
It’s pretty much the same thing as everywhere, you have a bunch of lovely people who package and test things, nothing too weird. What you are describing is LFS.
angry Gentoo and NixOS noises
Why do you need some terminal remote control for determining the working directory of a terminal exactly? Can’t you just go down the process tree until you find the shell and do
realpath /proc/<pid>/cwdon it? Am I missing something?