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Lyn coweat verifiedlesbian @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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absolutely wild that there seems to be no single standard linux program that simply takes a filename as one argument and text to write to it as another, without needing to use shell features like io redirection, pipes or herestrings Oo

Edit: Yes I know I can spawn a shell if I don't have one (e.g. in a systemd service's ExecStartPre etc.), I know plenty of other workarounds I could use too. All I wanted to say is that it's weird that such a workaround is needed.
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229 @Nero@chaos.social
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@fugi what would be the usecase for this? with having a shell, writing to files basically comes for free for any program...
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Lyn coweat verifiedlesbian @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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@Nero Anywhere you don't automatically have a shell, like in a systemd service's ExecStartPre for example
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Celeste_transbian flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinkingbadge-petting-encouraged badge-biting-allowed @star@amazonawaws.com
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@fugi @Nero but bash -c ...
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Lyn coweat verifiedlesbian @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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@star @Nero like I said, obviously I can do that, but it's ugly
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Celeste_transbian flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinkingbadge-petting-encouraged badge-biting-allowed @star@amazonawaws.com
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@fugi @Nero I didn't see where you said it
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Lyn coweat verifiedlesbian @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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@star @Nero fed.amazonawaws.com/notes/ao5meys1zgr6r04k
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Celeste_transbian flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinkingbadge-petting-encouraged badge-biting-allowed @star@amazonawaws.com
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@fugi @Nero I also reaaaaly don't think it's thaaaaat ugly. You likely don't even need /bin/... because bash or at least sh are always in path. But that's a subjective measurement I guess
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Celeste_transbian flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinkingbadge-petting-encouraged badge-biting-allowed @star@amazonawaws.com
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@fugi @Nero chaotic evil /usr/bin/claude-code --prompt "write the following text to the file at ...: ..." --auto-accept (I don't know if any of these flags exist, I am just posting)
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Max @korenchkin@chaos.social
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Cognitohazard, LLMs, unix shell commands @star @fugi @Nero lawful evil: ln -sf /usr/bin/claude-code /bin/sh
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Lyn coweat verifiedlesbian @fugi@amazonawaws.com
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@star not necessarily with systemd services ^^
the /bin/ part is not what I find ugly tho, it's the need to call a shell and pass all that as an argument to it, possibly requiring escaping quotes and stuff, when it could simply be something like "write 1 /file". I just find it wild that no such program exists. You can only spawn a shell, or spawn some interpreter like python or perl, or abuse sed (ugly too), or similar workarounds.
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229 @Nero@chaos.social
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@fugi @star it a thing with shell, that it always feels some kind of dirty/ugly. but i think its a matter of "aquired taste". like with booze.
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