Bash Shell Parameter Expansion

[tolugboji]

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On Saturday, October 9th, 2021 at 6:52 PM, Kusalananda Kähäri 
<andreas.kahari@abc.se> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 04:14:03PM +0000, tolugboji wrote:
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> > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
> >
> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
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> > On Saturday, October 9th, 2021 at 4:02 PM, Chet Ramey chet.ramey@case.edu 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 10/9/21 10:36 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 09:05:19AM -0500, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Your assignment is being executed as a command. Why don't you simply 
> > > > > do
> > > > >
> > > > > param="Hilbert Transform"
> > > >
> > > > Don't bother asking this person why they do whatever it is that they do.
> > > >
> > > > Just add their current email address-pattern to your ever-growing list
> > > >
> > > > of killfile patterns for blocking them (again).
> > >
> > > This doesn't seem like trolling on its face, though the protonmail address
> > >
> > > is a potential red flag.
> >
> > Is it really because someone uses some email address you all freak out? It 
> > was not myself who started
> >
> > a charge of people being mentally ill when asking questions here.
>
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>
> It's not because of the protonmail address, although I'd agree that
>
> it's a red flag. It's the fact that you don't seem to learn. You
>
> don't change the way you ask, and you quite obviously don't learn
>
> from the long, long threads of replies to your questions. Since the
>
> beginning of the year, I have seen your messages across at least three
>
> different sites and mailing lists, just from casually being part of
>
> those communities. You are one of the most prolific and polymorphic
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> help vampires I have seen.
>
> You're using I don't know how many identities to avoid detection (which
>
> constitute a breach of community guidelines on at least one of the sites
>
> you frequent). Even so, it's easy to spot you because your questions,
>
> as Greg pointed out earlier in the year, are usually lacking adequate
>
> context, are often vague, and are not aimed at learning but rather to
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> have others correct your code without changing your awkward ways of
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> using the language (like that thing with optional option-arguments, or
>
> parsing strings as arrays or whatever you wanted to do). Every single
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> new question also generate lengthy and futile threads in which you morph
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> the original question this way and that to try to snake out of doing
>
> things properly.
>
> And when you are called out, you revert to name calling and outright
>
> trolling.
>
> I wish I had any good suggestions for what you could do, because you
>
> so obviously need assistance with your coding, assuming that you are
>
> actually trying to create something. As a manager, I would put you on a
>
> course or get you to do your own studying in one way or another, or just
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> simply get you to have more people on your team to work with. Or move
>
> you to some other project or task. Because what you're currently doing
>
> is outsourcing development to random people on the Internet, people that
>
> can't see the whole project, which ultimately means you'll end up with
>
> possibly well built components, each written in a different style and
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> hopelessly unmaintainable as a whole.
>
> But then again, that's the help vampire's way of getting things done.

People customarily gather from what they find.  One can go whatever place they 
want,
and trying to track what others do is not something I approve of.  Whatever 
vague thing
you find you blame it on others.

It was a simple question and people turned it into a hunt.  It is what is all 
wrong with
computer mailing lists.  No wonder all the obsession with codes of conduct 
igniting
up like wildfires.  The problem stems from people like Greg, including possibly 
yourself.