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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:29:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   there's a certain level of sadness you have to reach to learn how to do a for-loop in batch scripting

   bash? sure, that's normal. but if you want to iterate over some files on a windows command line? you're a sicko

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:29:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I am, sadly, a sicko

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:37:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ongion

     @Ongion powershell is an option, but I'd rather learn more batch than powershell. more universally usable in the circles I live in

   • Ongion (ongion@mendeddrum.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:37:55 JST Ongion

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     @foone whenever I get to that point I think about just learning powershell instead.

     I assume that's not an option for the environment you're operating in, though.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:49:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Marcus Müller

     @funkylab yeah I'm a recursive sicko

   • Marcus Müller (funkylab@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:49:40 JST Marcus Müller

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     @foone so you do that recursively?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:50:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • irina 🌷🐇 friend of eggbug

     @irina yeah that's my usual option. I can write a 5 line python program that does what a 2 line batch program can do, but at least I'll understand it

   • irina 🌷🐇 friend of eggbug (irina@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:50:16 JST irina 🌷🐇 friend of eggbug

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     @foone i've gotten to this point a few times and just decided "hm. no, the user can install python for this"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:50:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • mcc

     @mcc AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MSBUILD

     one of my previous jobs involved automating MSBuild and it was an endless nightmare

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 08:50:45 JST mcc

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     @foone the point where I think cursed thoughts like "I should switch over to MSBuild, where things are easier"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:05:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • mcc
     • leo vriska :light2:

     @leo @mcc AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

   • leo vriska :light2: (leo@60228.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:05:42 JST leo vriska :light2:

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     • mcc

     @foone @mcc did you know that nintendo uses msbuild for building switch games

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:10:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • mcc
     • curtmack

     @curtmack @mcc nasty!

   • curtmack (curtmack@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:10:42 JST curtmack

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     • mcc

     @mcc @foone When I worked at IBM, I briefly had a local instance of IBM WebSphere on my work laptop. At that time, the entire build system comprised hundreds of batch scripts calling each other, and documentation was non-existent. It took me two full days of fiddling to get it built, between the raw build time and having to modify the process on the fly because our environment was not exactly the same as that of the team that originally produced it.

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 09:10:43 JST mcc

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     @foone i have become comfortable with it , like a horrible cursed glave. i have created works of startling complexity in it. msbuild is the thing that means I don't have to learn how to learn batch

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 14:36:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Elton Carvalho

     @eltonfc yeah! There's a "for" statement which iterates over a list and does some variable replacement stuff per iteration.

     for /l %%x in (1, 1, 100) do echo %%x

   • Elton Carvalho (eltonfc@bertha.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 14:36:38 JST Elton Carvalho

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     @foone is it even possible without a goto?