The Beauty of Unix Pipelines
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The Beauty of Unix Pipelines
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#2What does it mean to say that the video shows "Kernighan being a complete chad"?
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#3What does it mean to say that the video shows "Kernighan being a complete chad"?
Based on some searching, it seems calling someone a "Chad" is evoking the cool and attractive image that the name presents.
"Chad is a man who automatically and naturally turns girls on due to his appearance and demeanor" https://www.reddit.com/r/ForeverAlone/comments/6bgbc2/whats_...
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#4I use pipelines as much as the next guy but every time I see post praise how awesome they are, I'm reminded of the Unix Hater's Handbook. Their take on pipelines is pretty spot on too.
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#5I love pipelines. I don't know the elaborate sublanguages of find, awk, and others, to exploit them adequately. I also love Python, and would rather use Python than those sublanguages.
I'm developing a shell based on these ideas: https://github.com/geophile/marcel.
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#6Unix pipelines are cool and I am all for it. In recent times however, I see that sometimes they are taken too far without realizing that each stage in the pipeline is a process and a debugging overhead in case something goes wrong.
A case in point is this pipeline that I came across in the wild:
TOKEN=$(kubectl describe secret -n kube-system $(kubectl get secrets -n kube-system | grep default | cut -f1 -d ' ') | grep -E '^token' | cut -f2 -d':' | tr -d '\t' | tr -d " ")
In this case, perhaps awk would have absorbed 3 to 4 stages.
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#7I have problems understanding what commands I can pipe. Some work some don't.
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#8What does it mean to say that the video shows "Kernighan being a complete chad"?
It's an alt-right in-joke related to the incel subculture.
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#9What does it mean to say that the video shows "Kernighan being a complete chad"?
Essentially another way of saying that Kernighan exudes confidence in his demeanor and excellence in the subject matter
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#10What does it mean to say that the video shows "Kernighan being a complete chad"?
It's an alt-right in-joke related to the incel subculture.
I wouldn't be so quick to say it's an alt-right joke. Plenty of my friends will describe something/someone as a Chad and it has nothing to do with incel/alt-right cultures. Are those kind of phrases thrown out in those circles? Yes, but that's more of the general meme/internet lingo as opposed to subscribing to an ideology.