i know the latter is very silly, but would you rather write that in something other than sh+find+gzip??

@aescling gesundheit

@aescling Well for sure I'd rather write it in something that let me test it reliably before *checks notes* overwriting all of the files with arguably wrong extensions.

@aescling Actually, wait, does that even work at all?

@aschmitz fuck, i typo'd. should be <"$f" >"$f.gz". as is will just overwrite every file with nothing (> will clobber the file; gzip will read a now-empty file, and then write the transfurmation (that is, nothing) back to that file)

i did it right in the actual code, i swear,

@aescling I mean, be that as it may, it does make me feel like maybe a little indentation and clarity isn't a bad thing when writing a loop like that. (If you get that from shell scripts, as long as everyone working with you does too, cool, but I'd feel more comfortable in most other "scripting" languages personally. On the other hand, I can read regexes pretty much natively while that seems to be rare, so I know how that goes.)

@aschmitz i do use newlines and indents in the actual code but i can't put them in poll options