we do a little shell scripting

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@fiore oh i mightve just not been escaping the % and # correctly. i have to put a singlequote before those to escape them

adzuki-11

@fiore friggin ^ to concatenate ' to escape and then the character. this is stupid

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@fiore anyway now the syntax error is on the last } line. fascinating

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@coolbean whack-a-mole

adzuki-11

@fiore this would be so much easier of they just gave me a fucking switch statement oh my fucking god

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@coolbean rc(1) - a shell doesnt have that ???????? downgrade moment ??

adzuki-11

@fiore theres a github discussion about adding a switch statement and noones really opposed to it since itd simplify things when enumerating a variable but this isnt even what im doing im evaluating 2 variables to make for ultimately 3 cases

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@coolbean imean its crazy tho , i think when pike made rc , the bourne shell already had case statements ?

adzuki-11

@fiore rc removed a lot of things. the goal was simplifying things to improve composeability

adzuki-11

@fiore and honestly the way im approaching this is kinda elegant. first checking if the user is root then checking if the user is not connected via ssh and then knowing the user is not root and connected via ssh so both host and user need to be displayed

adzuki-11

@fiore i keep approaching it differently which is funny

also fun fact but the default prompt for es is ; because it means you can copy the entire terminal window and rerun your commands

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@coolbean iknow !! someone told me a while back .. fascinating ithink

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@fiore @coolbean nonzero chance that was me talking about rc... idk tho

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@shitpostalotl@axfedi.derg.rest @coolbean prolly