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Didn't know about auto populating search queries, abbreviations, string scripting, and using private mode.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I wish that string command and also their math command were just general-purpose utilities pre-installed on all systems.

Tried to script something with sed the other day and was so confused why my regexes weren't matching, until we realized you need to pass --regexp-extended to get modern-day regex.

And then I later tried to calculate an average, which bc decided to round down, because it was presumably doing integer math. I actually ended up running python -c "print($total / $count)", because I could not be arsed to work out, if there was some flag to make bc work properly.

I'm fine with these tools continuing to exist for legacy purposes, but I would like a modern replacement just about now.

[–] gamma@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

string split/collect and similar can't work unless its a builtin. The set foo ( ...... | string ... ) pattern couldn't work if string was an external binary.