Are you trolling us?

[eduardo-chibas]

Yes, I an Jeff Bezos trolling you before riding a dick into space !





> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 8:38 AM
> From: "Dennis Williamson" <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com>
> To: "help-bash" <help-bash@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Are you trolling us?
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 2:53 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> > I have a very strong feeling that we're being trolled.
> >
> > I'm seeing the same question being repeated under different personal
> > names, in slightly different formats.  All of the personal names
> > are composed of two lower-case words joined by a hyphen (foo-bar).
> >
> > The question is always some combination of the following set of issues:
> >
> > 1) They're parsing options.
> >
> > 2) They want to assign a default value to a variable, but they insist
> >    on doing this *after* the processing has finished, rather than before.
> >    This means they have to somehow "check" whether their variable has been
> >    "set".
> >
> > 3) They're defining local variables inside a conditional block (one branch
> >    of a case statement), and then they act surprised when an invocation
> >    that does not execute that block of code behaves differently.
> >
> > In <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2021-07/msg00163.html>
> > we see this code:
> >
> >   ("-w"|"--warning")
> >      local warn="1"
> >      case "$2" in
> >
> > In <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2021-07/msg00335.html>
> > we see this:
> >
> >   "-d")
> >     local -r dpath="$2" ; shift 2 ;;
> >
> > In <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2021-07/msg00270.html>:
> >
> >   if [[ -v excl ]]; then
> >
> > And then later in the same thread:
> >
> >   I am making the array if a specific option to a function is specified
> >   by the user.
> >
> > It's the same basic issue, over and over, in disguise.  I may have failed
> > to show enough context for you to see the similarities in these questions,
> > but that's because I don't want to spend enough time to track them all
> > down.
> >
> > One of these threads is from a person allegedly named "lisa-asket".  One
> > is from "eduardo-chibas".  One is from "dora-solomon".  No other name is
> > given -- just that hyphenated string, each time.
> >
> > I believe these are all the same person, and that this is some kind of
> > elaborate trolling campaign.  Perhaps it's a psychology class experiment
> > to see whether giving yourself a masculine name or a feminine name gets
> > a better result.  Or perhaps there's some other motivation.
> >
> > Whoever you really are, please stop now.
> >
>
>
> I've been suspecting the same thing.
>
> >
>