I think this is supposed to be a fork bomb?
https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=%3A%28%29%7B%20%3A%7C%3...
That's not clear at all from the explanation.
Enter a command to see help text for each arg
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#12I think this is supposed to be a fork bomb? https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=%3A%28%29%7B%20%3A%7C%3... That's not clear at all from the explanation.
It seems to explain everything correctly though? Read through and it should make sense why it is a fork bomb .
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#13Doesn't understand "curl www.google.com", lol.
It does... Obviously "www.google.com" is not in the manpage.
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#14The service is pretty neat. It's probably parsing the man pages somehow to create this. I wonder if it would be possible to utilize this parsed information to create type checking tools for shell scripts... Something which checks if correct count of arguments is given for command etc.
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#15> true(1)
Translates to
"Do nothing, successfuly"
This tickles my imposter syndrome
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#16Imagine if a programming language had at least two compilation targets from the start: machine code/byte code and prose.
This is a really neat idea! I wonder how close you could get the prose to actually explaining the codes purpose as opposed to just saying "this is a for loop"?
The purpose (intent) wouldn’t be explained, but it could be useful for tools which have oddball syntax and are only used sometimes (infrequent enough for you to forget).
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#17The service is pretty neat. It's probably parsing the man pages somehow to create this. I wonder if it would be possible to utilize this parsed information to create type checking tools for shell scripts... Something which checks if correct count of arguments is given for command etc.
You can see how the parsing works in the source code (with a specific high level explanation of how this part works), as the site is an open source project.
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#18Imagine if a programming language had at least two compilation targets from the start: machine code/byte code and prose.
ran into this one recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noweb
along with other related literate programming tools
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#19Old url, but it is awesome, thanks for remembers it me. Is there a cli (offline) alternative?
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#20This looks great! Is there a CLI utility that uses the site to do the same, perhaps?
Some shells have this built in, like Fish and my own one ( https://murex.rocks ) too