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    Easy, it's uuuuuuuuh… (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 2 weeks ago by Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    I some beef with this meme in that there really isn't a way to simply do this in windows. If anything, it demonstrates the upper level of capability and function using a cli shell. People who are looking for a windows replacement would never need to understand this command or even use a pipe / regex as they were unlikely to have been doing this kind of thing with windows anyway.

    [–] missingno@fedia.io 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Who said anything about Windows? What's that have to do with the meme?

    [–] ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    That's fair! I've always seen this community as an environment for advocating Linux use to Lemmings and much of the time the memes are comparative in nature to other options (ex the current to meme in this community about vendor lock in) so I'm just injecting my own historical view about this community. If it's not comparative; then why is it really that funny? In that case it just reads like an exam in a CIS final.

    [–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I think it's funny for the exact same reason that this xkcd is funny: https://xkcd.com/1168/

    [–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    tar -xzf

    eXtract Ze File

    [–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

    eXtract Zipped File

    [–] ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

    Right I love that comic! But I think the joke there is the expectation that a unix user would be able to do something as simple as opening a .tar.gz file, something that's a much more common experience among nix users, but truth is many experienced users would still need to look up the exact syntax (me included). This meme is more like "look at how absurd of a command you can use in bash; can you tell the difference?" I dunno just doesn't hit the same to me. Appreciate you sharing that xkcd though.

    [–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    who in their right mind would try to do this on Linux

    [–] ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    I could imagine a command like this being used as part of a CI/CD script doing static analysis in a virtualized environment where the build is running in a *nix container. There's more maintainable options as well (ie easier for an entire team of developers to understand / lower 'bus factor').

    Lol someone is so mad about this they're going around downvoting all my replies. Guess that's easier than coming up with a thoughtful reply and actually conversing but whatever you do you boo

    [–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Build scripts are often written in bash, yes, but I would say that you should find a utility program, or write your own utility in python, if you're breaking out sed. It's very hard to read code like this, no matter the team size.

    There's probably only 100-300 usages of sed in the entire nixpkgs repo, with over 100,000 packages.

    I definitely agree Linux is easier to maintain and build code on than Windows, but yeah abusing sed is not really an ideal use case 😅

    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

    It's the 1 million Euro question.