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[AI summary] The post explains Bash shell special parameters such as *, @, #, ?, -, $, !, 0, and _ detailing their specific behaviors in script contexts.
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What is fex? Fex is a powerful field extraction tool. Fex provides a very concise language for tokenizeing strings and extracting fields. The basic usage model is that you provide a series of delimiter and field selection pairs. Tokens can be any character, while field selections have a specific syntax. Download Releases are available on GitHub. Sometimes simpler than cut and awk cut(1) from GNU coreutils (on Linux) does not support negative offsets, so you cannot ask cut to only show you the Nth field f...
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[AI summary] A technical guide explaining the advantages of using command substitution syntax $() over legacy backticks in Bash and POSIX shells.
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I wanted to run some Django tests - using pytest-django and with Django configured to pick up the DATABASE_URL environment variable via dj-database-url - against a PostgreSQL server running in GitHub Actions.
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