Firechicken Quotelist

did you know gnu `true` will sometimes exit false?

a literal empty file is sufficient for the true command

(v7 unix did that (and that still works on modern systems which is cool))

> <@u9000:riot.firechicken.net> did you know gnu `true` will sometimes exit false? wait when will this happen? im actually curious (and dont want to break my scripts)

idk give me a sec

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/true.c#n67

> <@u9000:riot.firechicken.net> did you know gnu `true` will sometimes exit false? thanks biden

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DJ Chase: joe biden is super old

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I honestly blame him for this

wait hang on

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honestly I kind of understand the posix compliance thing at this point

I didnt know that ubuntu didnt ship with bash as a default at this point

alpine ships with ash

okay everyone be quite for a second

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targeting ubuntu is actually important if you're writing scripts for other people to use

ok now time to clean up the quotelist by manually editing the files :-)

f it still missed it

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DJ Chase: joe biden is super old

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I honestly blame him for this

wait hang on

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honestly I kind of understand the posix compliance thing at this point

I didnt know that ubuntu didnt ship with bash as a default at this point

alpine ships with ash

okay everyone be quite for a second

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DJ Chase: joe biden is super old

* !quotebot 1

I honestly blame him for this

wait hang on

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Okay, it works now!

except you can't invite it to any rooms yet so it's somewhat useless

foo

my

name

is

dj

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quux

baz

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