uh oh bash scripts are fun
@wallhackio read the UNIX Programming Environment!!!
@wallhackio i developed a much better intuition fur how shell purrogramming works from reading its multiple chapters on the topic
@aescling the syntax is very confusing and i do not udnerstand what is happening half the time
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@wallhackio @aescling Reported 
(Which parts of the syntax are you confused by?)
@vaporeon_ @aescling for((i=0; i<${#files[@]}; i++)); do to loop over an array is not yet understood by me. the nested parenthesis, the # for some reason, what is @
@vaporeon_ @aescling whitespace matters a lot which is surprising coming from c-style languages
like I tried to do if [! -d $dirname]; then and bash got mad at me for not putting a space between [ and !
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ [ is an alternative name of the command test(1); it needs to be recognized as its own token
