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[Ken D'Ambrosio]

With all due respect, this programming mumbo jumbo is fine and all, but 
it overlooks a much more serious issue with the comic: a complete and 
utter lack of velociraptors.

This can not and should not be tolerated.

-Ken


On 2012-09-21 11:32, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Alan Johnson <alan at datdec.com> 
> wrote:
>>>   As a halfway point, one can also do this:
>>>
>>>         for v in n s; do for h in e w; do for x in {1..100}; do for 
>>> y in
>>> {1..100}; do echo http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/$y$v$x$h.png; 
>>> done;
>>> done; done; done > urls
>>>
>>> to use a for loop without needing the seq external command.
>>
>> Nice!  And more readable than either your one liner or my use of 
>> seq.
>
>   To each their own.  :)  Personally I find concise expressions more
> readable.  :)
>
>   I suspect it may be a question of familiarity.  I use brace
> expansion *all the time*.  It's very handy for manipulating groups of
> files with similar names.  So the expression
>
> 	http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/{1..256}{n,s}{1..256}{e,w}.png
>
> is just as readable to me as the expression
>
> 	http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/$y$v$x$h.png
>
> , but the latter also requires me to figure out where the variables
> are coming from.
>
>>>   What is this "real world" of which you speak, and where may I
>>> download it from?  ;-)
>>
>> It's on the Internet.  Just download the whole thing and grep it.
>
>   We're gonna need a bigger boat^W hard drive.
>
> -- Ben
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