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lmm on March 24, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting...

At this point I refuse to trust anyone who writes shell scripts. Bugs happen, but a shell script is practically guaranteed to have zero automated tests and variable-related bugs are all too common.

lttlrck on March 24, 2015 [–]

Surely your distrust should be aimed at shell scripts not at everyone who has written one.

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