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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Tuesday July 10, 2007
06:42 AM

Yeah, I'm an idiot

[ #33767 ]

The joys of trying to fix a tiny problem, trying to do it quickly and not having enough coffee.

$ mkdir conf/devel
$ cp -R conf/* conf/devel

Hey, why is that taking so long?

Sigh.


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  • => mkdir conf; mkdir conf/devel; touch conf/a => find conf conf conf/devel conf/a => cp -R conf/* conf/devel/ cp: cannot copy a directory, `conf/devel', into itself, `conf/devel/devel' => find conf conf conf/devel conf/devel/a conf/devel/devel conf/devel/devel/a conf/a one level too deep, but it stopped quickly. standard bash from ubuntu. => bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.13(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    • eh. it was supposed to be better formatted.

      => mkdir conf; mkdir conf/devel; touch conf/a

      => find conf
      conf
      conf/devel
      conf/a

      => cp -R conf/* conf/devel/
      cp: cannot copy a directory, `conf/devel', into itself, `conf/devel/devel'

      => find conf
      conf
      conf/devel
      conf/devel/a
      conf/devel/devel
      conf/devel/devel/a
      conf/a

      one level too deep, but it stopped quickly. standard bash from ubuntu.

      => bash --version
      GNU bash, version 3.2.13(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
      Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software

      • $ uname -a
        FreeBSD ************** 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2: Thu Mar 29 20:01:22 BST 2007
        root@**************:**************  i386

      • Oh, and my bash:

        $ bash --version
        GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i386-portbld-freebsd5.4)
        Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  • yeah, that's why i always do something like

    mkdir conf/zzzz
    cp -R conf/*
    mv conf/zzzz conf/devel

  • shopt -s extglob
    cp -R conf/!(devel) conf/devel

  • grep PATTERN *.txt >grepped.txt
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