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Just a little bit shorter, as it seems /s
I just fucking threw up
I did too. Multiple times in fact, I had to look at the other Rust code!
Isn't echo a shell builtin?
Yes and no. While coreutils does provide an
echo
binary, shells also have a built-in for optimisation purposes.At first I had the code calling the binary directly, but then changed it to spawning a shell (and so using the builtin). It's very cursed either way.