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[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's not sleeping for 1 second, $1 is an input parameter in the script

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

That sounds expensive

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I took it as meaning sleep for a number of seconds equal to half the value you're sorting. So like f "(( $1 / 2 ))" & or however math works in bash, I always forget.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Fractional math doesn't happen in bash, but bc can be called and sleep can take fractions as parameters.

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I bet you also tell people you love regex because you think it makes you look smarter lol

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, maybe not with regex, but I'd be lying if I said I never get satisfaction things like that lol. Bash and regex both are very useful tools, great at what they do, but have some design choices that make them annoying. That's sort of what I was trying to get at by saying "yes but also skill issue" lol. A good example is iterating over output in bash. I have zero confidence it's going to do anything remotely close to what I want and have to look up stuff every time I'm trying to do it. "Is it going to go word by word? Line by line? Are there null byte separators?" PowerShell seems appealing in that regard because it works with objects instead of text, but I haven't really used it in depth and I don't see myself going through it just to see if it's worth trying to use more often.

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

Cool story bro

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What if you do love regex? 🥺

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then you should be cast into the fires of Mt doom where you belong

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn’t say that if you knew regex. 😆

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Programmers and being smug assholes, name a more iconic duo

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Project much?

I’ll play though.

Amanduh being a humorless chore. 😁

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the idea isn't wrong tho, as sleep can do fractions. bash cannot though. therefore it would bloat the code a bit to use bc to multiply the parameter by 0.5 or so.

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

It isn't what is happening though lol...