OK, I read through the xargs documentation, pretty cool!
@vaporeon_ oh wow, posix xargs doesn’t suppurrt using null characters as a sepurrator
@aescling What would be the use-case for null characters as separators? Processing files that have a newline in the name?
@aescling Personally my opinion is that if you put a newline inside a filename, you deserve whatever troubles this causes you... It's just a wrong thing to do, even if it's technically allowed...
But I understand that not everyone may agree with that.
@vaporeon_ @aescling This has happened before by accident as a result of trying to operate on text files/scripts that were saved in windows notepad.
@onfy @vaporeon_ this succinctly raises so many questions lol, i love it
@vaporeon_ @aescling I don't remember just what I did. I guess I should've asked you instead of whatever horrible thing it was.
Though it did work in the end if you ignore that it broke FAT.
@vaporeon_ @aescling more than me
@onfy @aescling You, too, can learn xargs!
In any case, you're still learning Linux right? I think it'd be unfair to call someone incompetent who is still learning. Do you want me to look over your script and review it?
It's just that I have been doing this for so many years that I really ought to know it... And also I specifically want to be good at computers, just like some of y'all want to be good at melee fighting games or whatever, and so it is frustrating when despite my best efforts, I am bad at computers...
I think it'd be unfair to call someone incompetent who is still learning.
vaporeon… please take your own advice…
@vaporeon_ @aescling nah fuck you, take your advice vaporeon
@vaporeon_ @aescling we're all learning, always. give up on learning is like giving up on yourself
@vaporeon_ @aescling today's the second-best time to plant a tree
@vaporeon_ @aescling in your mind
@vaporeon_ @aescling with the seeds of knowledge
@vaporeon_ @onfy sarah was using metaphorical language
@aescling @vaporeon_ i have the weird flavour of autism where i understand and use metaphors 
@onfy @vaporeon_ The Autism Spectrum
@aescling @vaporeon_ not to be confused with zx spectrum
@vaporeon_ @aescling i'll see if i still have it
not sure what i want to be good at...
@vaporeon_ @onfy except now it’s not POSIX ;3
@aescling @onfy Good news! I went and checked POSIX 2024 instead of POSIX 2004, and that actually specifies the -0 option, too: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/xargs.html
@vaporeon_ @onfy better late than never ig
@aescling @vaporeon_ The result was a hideous "it works on my machine and breaks horribly on theirs" bug, since my text files have Unix endings.
@aescling @vaporeon_ One thing we did was a script that would take every line in a text file and make an empty file named for it
Say the document says:
Super Mario Bros
Luigi's Mansion
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
After the last character of every line it would have a newline characters because bash assumes Linux line endings instead of windows
So you get a file named Super Mario Bros[CR].