Notices by aliss (aliss@outerheaven.club), page 3

@tost @helene if only we had those shiny things in shell-land..

u could do "$pattern"debian|"$pattern"fedora) in the switch case right tosti?

@tost tosti tosti tosti i achieved to make mine shorter and beat yours for 18 characters ????

mine:

yours:

@tost so, first: u’re amazing, can you believe i never thought before of doing it like this?

the var is set after the loop finishes, so you can reuse it later!

i was approaching it something like (1), where my thought process was: first i query the data, then i switch/case, decide what to do after

but your approach (2) goes like the following: you make up a list of your own and run queries, if the query fails more things are queried, but if it goes okay you exit it and save it, you’re using the query as a control flow thing, and because the last success value will be stored in the var loop, you can parse with switch/case later! finally, there’s an extra element in the loop list to not always end with one of the true options!

your (2) is very smart and creative! yes the thought process of it may not be as straightforward as “just query data then parse it”, and you’re using the querying line as something to control the loop but it’s amazing! ???

it made me realise i barely ever use break statements smol brain :02think:

thx a lot u’re great :02_cheer:

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(2):

@tost you’re right my bad!

(3)

@tost @schappi @helene

funnily i had a very similar looking function in my own shell lib..

the earth (shell) is round truly