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dotike / try_or_die.sh
Last active July 18, 2023 20:23
3 finger claw technique for POSIX shell programming. Three one-line functions which greatly enhance shell programming, enabling reliable UNIX-style programming in an extremely concise fashion.
#!/bin/sh
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# This code known is distributed under the following terms:
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# Copyright (c) 2013 Isaac (.ike) Levy <[email protected]>.
# All rights reserved.
#
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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dotike / gist:8257249
Created January 4, 2014 16:47
wikipedia dumps, fetch last-1-good dump
#!/bin/sh
##############################################################################
# This code known is distributed under the following terms:
#
# Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Isaac (.ike) Levy <[email protected]>.
# All rights reserved.
#
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions