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On 2018-04-15 00:10, Floyd Anderson wrote: |
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> > https://very.loosely.org/paste/symlinks-pl |
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> Because argument ROOTDIR is mandatory, the script should do something |
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> when ROOTDIR is not given, e.g. print usage. Maybe ‘-r’ should be also |
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> mandatory or the script should define some useful defaults. Consider |
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> following invocations: |
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> $ ./symlinks-pl |
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> $ ./symlinks-pl /path/to/broken-symlink |
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> $ ./symlinks-pl -r /path/to/broken-symlink |
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> which do nothing and results with exit code 0. |
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I think this is more of a documentation bug in usage(). ROOTDIR is in |
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fact not mandatory - a list of zero or more items is expected, and each |
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item processed in turn. I remember thinking about it for a second, and |
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this was the most consistent and regular behavior, so the most |
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attractive to my droid mind :-P |
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Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, |
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if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. |
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To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists |
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which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com. |
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