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From: "Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com>
To: "Steve Long" <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>
Cc: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: New developer: Ron Gemeinhardt (timebandit)
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:57:00 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0809282227g249e4cfeo7d195fd3672b4536@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gbi7l5$mc5$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> Actually, your fail was more than that.
>>
> Tsk I thought you were better-mannered bheekling ;p
>

I had a momentary lapse of reason and had decided to join the ranks of
the lesser-mannered among us on these lists. I have since relapsed
back to my goody-goody self :p

>> $(for ACRONYM in ${LinkedIn}; do echo -en "${ACRONYM},"; done; echo -ne
>> '\b')
>>
> Now that *is* fail ;-)

Crap! I forgot, \b only works for displaying in the terminal; doesn't
actually "backspace" :(

>
>> So, where's my free review? ;p
>>
> isArr LinkedIn || LinkedIn=($LinkedIn)
> oIFS=$IFS
> IFS=,                   # This line and next are what you should
> echo "${LinkedIn[*]}"   # be aware of. cf: /msg greybot $@
> IFS=$oIFS
>
> (We just do: declare -r oIFS=$IFS
> ..at the start of our scripts, as it makes life easier in the long-run.)

Sigh... I think it's better to just live with the extra comma :p

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan



  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-29  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-22 12:52 [gentoo-project] New developer: Ron Gemeinhardt (timebandit) Denis Dupeyron
2008-09-22 13:14 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2008-09-26  8:39   ` [gentoo-project] " Steve Long
2008-09-29  5:27     ` Nirbheek Chauhan [this message]
2008-09-29 20:08       ` [gentoo-project] " Steve Long
2008-09-30  3:33         ` Ron Gemeinhardt
2008-09-30  6:50           ` [gentoo-project] " Steve Long
2008-09-22 23:15 ` [gentoo-project] " Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2008-09-26  9:24   ` Wernfried Haas

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