Weekly Facebook 2022-01-10 (Sun Jan 16 16:05:42 2022)

January 16, 2022

I think this was one of the coolest things I’ve learned in a while:

~% FILE=“example.tar.gz”

~% echo “${FILE%%.*}”

example

~% echo “${FILE%.*}”

example.tar

~% echo “${FILE#*.}”

tar.gz

~% echo “${FILE##*.}”

So the question as i have reinterpreted it is:

In one sentence, how to you completely fail the interview?

This is related to a long time hobby of mine which I call negative space, particularly around restaurants and movies and such. Now I have a new word.

Keywords: facebook