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diff --git a/www/blog/2020-01-13/index.html b/www/blog/2020-01-13/index.html index 34a0468..0c9d1d5 100644 --- a/www/blog/2020-01-13/index.html +++ b/www/blog/2020-01-13/index.html @@ -24,17 +24,17 @@ command. I figured I could it could just be a simple bash script that recalls your bash-history and appends it to a file, all things that are incredibly easy to do... or so I thought.</p> - <h2>Look before you leap</h2> + <h3>Look before you leap</h3> <p>This article is a reminder to myself to test the core functionality first, before decorating your program/script with all those bells and whistles. While I did learn a lot in the process it is always a good to check the basics first.</p> - <h2>What went right</h2> + <h3>What went right</h3> <p>I actually ended up learning a lot during the development of the (never finished) tool. I had never used <code>getopts</code> inside a script before, which turned out to be extremely intuitive. That was all that went right...</p> - <h2>What went wrong</h2> + <h3>What went wrong</h3> <p>Literally, everything else that could've went wrong did. The "project" was a single bash script roughly 160 lines long before I found out it wouldn't work. It was a series of flags that @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ when writing. I tried to allow it so you could default an action to make the CLI intuitive which lead to a messy set of if/elses and switch cases.</p> - <h3>You can't access un-committed bash history</h3> + <h4>You can't access un-committed bash history</h4> <p>History command in a bash shell commits the history at the end of the session. This makes sense once you know this, there are a lot of reasons saving the commands to file after every execution is probably not the @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ remember I had to add something to my bash_profile before it would work. I wanted something I could just copy onto a new machine and have access to its functionality.</p> - <h2>Lesson learned</h2> + <h3>Lesson learned</h3> <p>While developing a tool to help me remember things, I learned something I cannot forget: Test the core, simplest functionality first. Before you do anything validate what you're trying to do will work. @@ -62,8 +62,7 @@ can't do the basics, there is no point.</p> </article> <div id='footer'> - Note: This entry ended up getting rewritten and posted on 2020-02-17 - instead. <i>January 17, 2020</i> + <i>Updated and finally posted February 16, 2020</li> </div> </div> </body> |