• @[email protected]English
      13•1 year ago

      This is the best way. It’s also the way the Shellcheck wants sometimes recommends.

    • GammaEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      This has never stuck with me, and I hadn’t thought about why until now. I have two reasons why I will always write ${x}_$y.z instead of ${x}_${y}.z:

      • Syntax highlighting and shellcheck have always caught the cases I need to add braces to prevent $x_ being expanded as ${x_}.
      • I write a lot of Zsh. In Zsh, braces are optional in way more cases. "$#array[3]" actually prints the length of the third item in array, rather than (Bash:) the number of positional parameters, then the string 'array[3]'.
      • thingsiplay
        3•1 year ago

        @gamma I just use them out of consistency and principle, so I don’t need to think in which case it is required or not.

      • Cyclohexane
        1•1 year ago

        I will always write ${x}_$y.z instead of ${x}_${y}.z:

        The difference between the two seems different to what’s in the OP. Is there a typo here?

        • GammaEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          in the OP

          My reply is to a commenter who said they prefer "${HOME}/docs" over both options in the original image ("$HOME/docs" or "$HOME"/docs). Many people prefer to always include braces around the parameter name out of consistency, instead of only when they are required.

          My comment explained why my habit is to only include braces when they are necessary.

  • @[email protected]
    38•1 year ago

    find “$(echo $HOME > variable_holder.txt && cat variable_holder.txt)/$(cat alphabet.txt | grep “d”) $(cat alphabet.txt | grep “o”)$(cat alphabet.txt | grep “c”)$(cat alphabet.txt | grep “s”)”

    This is the easiest method

    • Eager EagleEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      when you’re paid by character written

    • @ale
      6•10 months ago

      deleted by creator

    • thingsiplay
      2•1 year ago

      @ilega_dh You don’t need cat in cases when grep "d" alphabet.txt can read from file too. Edit: But obviously your comment was more of a joke to over complicate it. So never mind then.

    • monsterpiece42
      1•1 year ago

      What should I search to better understand what is written here? Don’t mind learning myself, just looking for the correct keywords. Thanks!

      • @marcos
        2•1 year ago

        Read the Bash manual. That one patter on the GP is called “Command Substitution”, you can search for it.

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        This comment is a joke and you wouldn’t want to do it like that in reality, but here are some related keywords you could look up: “Unix cat”, “Unix pipeline”, “grep”, “output redirection”, “command substitution”.

  • keyEnglish
    17•1 year ago

    First one, then the other, then I forget the quotes, then I put them in single quotes by accident, then I utilize that “default value” colon syntax in case I’m missing HOME , then I just stick to ~ for the rest of the file.

  • GammaEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    Typically find "$HOME/docs", but with a few caveats:

    • In Zsh or Fish, the quotes are unnecessary: find $HOME/docs

    • If I’m using anything potentially destructive: mv "${HOME:?}/bin" ...

    • Of course, if it’s followed by a valid identifier character, I’ll add braces: "${basename}_$num.txt"