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minus-squarejoranvarlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-218 days agoSo, split. Edit: although there’s also tac, which could fit the bill as well.
minus-squarejoranvarlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 days agoI mean… it’s nice that it exists and all, but I can’t really think of many useful usecases.
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 days agoI think I only ever used it in an intro to shell scripting where we (almost) recreated the function of tail
minus-squarejoranvarlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 days agoSomething like tac | head | tac, I guess? Yes, that’s a valid use case indeed :)
minus-squarejoranvarlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 days agoHeh, no, but they do have a nice set of man pages and other documentation online. I prefer NixOS. Easier keeping track of configuration, easier rolling back of (and experimentation with) new stuff.
So, split.
Edit: although there’s also tac, which could fit the bill as well.
Hah, forgot about tac
I mean… it’s nice that it exists and all, but I can’t really think of many useful usecases.
I think I only ever used it in an intro to shell scripting where we (almost) recreated the function of tail
Something like
tac | head | tac, I guess? Yes, that’s a valid use case indeed :)Oh, you use Arch?
Heh, no, but they do have a nice set of man pages and other documentation online. I prefer NixOS. Easier keeping track of configuration, easier rolling back of (and experimentation with) new stuff.