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		dale_glass on April 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? Bad example, yes. Plus it's a pointless thing to do to start with, because you run into trouble with special characters in filenames that way. Got to use readdir. And while we're being pedantic, it's 'lose'.

dolmen on April 12, 2021 [–]

> And while we're being pedantic, it's 'lose'.

Fair. I'm better at shell and Perl languages than English. None of them are my mother tongue.

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