barbara@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 6 months agowhy does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?message-squaremessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squarewhy does noone inprove bash such that you can write a normal foor loop with whitespace in file names?barbara@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 6 months agomessage-square40fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTimeSquirrel@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoMy question is, how can you look at whitespace in a filename and not have your eyelid twitch?
minus-squarejohn89@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoNot having tunnel-vision or being autistic.
minus-squareTimeSquirrel@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months ago being autistic Easy there, a lot of people on the spectrum built everything you’re using to talk to me right now.
minus-squareTimeSquirrel@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoBy “a lot of people”, I meant “a great many of them” compared to neurotypicals. Not all. It often takes a special kind of person to be able to absorb reams of dry technical knowledge in a narrow field and spit it out like it’s a second language.
My question is, how can you look at whitespace in a filename and not have your eyelid twitch?
Not having tunnel-vision or being autistic.
Easy there, a lot of people on the spectrum built everything you’re using to talk to me right now.
Everything? No they did not.
By “a lot of people”, I meant “a great many of them” compared to neurotypicals. Not all.
It often takes a special kind of person to be able to absorb reams of dry technical knowledge in a narrow field and spit it out like it’s a second language.
Alan Turing, probably