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tkocmathla • last Thursday at 8:49 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

I love this, from a comment on the article:

  He had in his path a script called `\#` that he used to comment out pipe elements like `mycmd1 | \# mycmd2 | mycmd3`. This was how the script was written:
 
  ```
  #!/bin/sh
  cat
  ```

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rgrau • last Thursday at 10:08 AM

A similar trick:

    #!/bin/sh
    $*
that's my `~/bin/noglob` file, so when I call a zsh script from bash that uses `noglob`, it doesn't blow up.
000ooo000 • last Thursday at 10:21 AM

What does it provide over

mycmd1 #| mycmd2

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internet_points • last Thursday at 9:53 AM

Yes! That one's going in my $PATH. Such a useful use of cat!

mzs • last Thursday at 5:06 PM

Wow I hate* that. I use bracket comments. They're cool cause they are bracket comments, so I use it in scripts to document pipelines. They are annoying cause they are bracket comments, in an interactive shell I have to type more and in TWO places. It's fun to reason-out how it works ;)

  $ echo foo | tr fo FO | sed 's/FOO/BAR/'
  BAR
  $ echo foo | ${IFS# tr fo FO | } sed 's/FOO/BAR/'
  foo
It's nice to have a way to both /* ... */ and // ... in shell scripts though:

  foo \
  | bar ${IFS Do the bar. Do it. } \
  | baz
* in the best possible way, like it's awful - I hate I didn't think of that
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