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by Avshalom 3883 days ago
The unix way is also a different incompatible implementation of regex in every utility and a thousand interesting and dangerous modes of failure in the event of whitespace

Systemd has issues I'm sure and I don't trust poettering's software further than I can throw him but not being 'unix'-y isn't a strike against it.
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_b8r0 3883 days ago
> The unix way is also a different incompatible implementation of regex in every utility and a thousand interesting and dangerous modes of failure in the event of whitespace

Then_stop_using_whitespace_and_that_problem_is_solved_for_some_values_of_solved_;)

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GFK_of_xmaspast 3883 days ago
"You're doing it wrong and should have known better" is also the unix way.
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