With all due respect, this programming mumbo jumbo is fine and all, but it overlooks a much more serious issue with the comic: a complete and utter lack of velociraptors.
This can not and should not be tolerated. -Ken On 2012-09-21 11:32, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Alan Johnson <a...@datdec.com> > wrote: >>> As a halfway point, one can also do this: >>> >>> for v in n s; do for h in e w; do for x in {1..100}; do for >>> y in >>> {1..100}; do echo http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/$y$v$x$h.png; >>> done; >>> done; done; done > urls >>> >>> to use a for loop without needing the seq external command. >> >> Nice! And more readable than either your one liner or my use of >> seq. > > To each their own. :) Personally I find concise expressions more > readable. :) > > I suspect it may be a question of familiarity. I use brace > expansion *all the time*. It's very handy for manipulating groups of > files with similar names. So the expression > > http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/{1..256}{n,s}{1..256}{e,w}.png > > is just as readable to me as the expression > > http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/$y$v$x$h.png > > , but the latter also requires me to figure out where the variables > are coming from. > >>> What is this "real world" of which you speak, and where may I >>> download it from? ;-) >> >> It's on the Internet. Just download the whole thing and grep it. > > We're gonna need a bigger boat^W hard drive. > > -- Ben > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/