Gregory's Server@whitequark @wyatt8740 @jannem @dalias @unnick Bash extensions can be very helpful, but it is big and sometimes critically buggy, I do agree on those common points.
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 @wyatt8740 @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick the only thing worse than a bourne shell is cmd.exe  @whitequark @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick Powershell is worse @wyatt8740 @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick never heard of poweshell @whitequark @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick it's been around since windows xp. I'm astonished if you never have @wyatt8740 @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick (I thought it was an obvious bit >.>) @whitequark @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick gotta say i kind of wondered when you said 'only thing worse is cmd.exe' @wyatt8740 @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick I have, actually! I never tried to ship DOS batch files at scale though, because that scale did not exist yet @whitequark @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick command.com bat files are much worse than windows bat files  @wyatt8740 @whitequark @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick ...aaaand that's why some of us used 4DOS, before moving over to Unix-like systems soon after.  @wyatt8740@tech.lgbt @whitequark@mastodon.social @parzivalwolfram@infosec.exchange @jannem@fosstodon.org @dalias@hachyderm.io @unnick@wetdry.world Honestly both of them are horrendous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE8IAxM_BhE (and the follow up to how to secure against such attacks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x97ejtv56xw) but what really got me was the finale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mej5L9PE1fs I hate cmd.exe and powershell.exe they are the antichrist and i am not joking. @whitequark @wyatt8740 @jannem @dalias @unnick i've done some DOS slinging, it's even worse without the extensions from the NT era. splitting a string is a 3-batch-file job totalling... 2104 bytes, for a maximum of 3 splits on one character, more if you need more than that, and there's no way to do it programmatically up to n splits unless you hardcode support up to that number. @parzivalwolfram @whitequark @jannem @dalias @unnick Don't forget that goto labels can only be 8 characters! @parzivalwolfram @wyatt8740 @jannem @dalias @unnick at this point just use debug.com to do it in native code @whitequark @parzivalwolfram @jannem @dalias @unnick "You are a very silly person, and I'm not going to interview you." |
@parzivalwolfram @whitequark @jannem @dalias @unnick a non-bash bourne shell is preferable imo