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I tend to do a lot of things with some terrible, terrible bash scripts. Backups, listening to music, creating temporary virtual machines... and also, listening through my podcast backlog. This last one gets pretty complicated, and while looking into how to manage it, I discovered a bash script technique that surprised me.
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I work from home, and my wife commutes. Every day, in the afternoon, I find myself constantly leaning over and parting the shades to check and see if I hear her driving up the driveway, or if I'm just hearing random road noise. It's a silly problem, with an even sillier technical solution.
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While working on a project, I was wondering if I could make it very difficult to execute a script. I'm creating bash functions in separate files, and they're replacing scripts that used to be executed directly. I am removing execute permissions, but some well-meaning future self might try and "fix" them by re-adding those permissions. Could I stop them from being executed in other ways?
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