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		20after4 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Postman which I thought worked locally on my compu... Well written bash will run anywhere. Amateur bash will only run on the version of Mac OS it was written on, and even then only after the correct collection of random homebrew packages installed has been installed.

array_key_first 15 days ago [–]

I agree, which is why I think most bash scripts should actually be Perl scripts. There, I said it.

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