So true. Every time I have to look up how to write a bash for loop. Where does the semicolon go? Where is the newline? Is it terminated with done? Or with end? The worst part with bash is that when you do it wrong, most of the time there is no error but something completely wrong happens.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I can only remember this because I initially didn't learn about xargs

so any time I need to loop over something I tend to use for var in $(cmd) instead of cmd | xargs. It's more verbose but somewhat more flexible IMHO.

So I run loops a lot on the command line, not just in shell scripts.

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