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R.L. Dane

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Feb 2

Today's #APOD's a looker ;)

Date: 2026 February 02
URL: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260202.html
Title: Orion: The Running Man Nebula

#NASA #Astronomy #PictureOfTheDay

APOD: 2026 February 2 – Orion: The Running Man Nebula

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

P.S., the body of the parent #toot was created by a simple #shell #function:

function apod {
    #Today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day info-fetcher
    curl -sL 'https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html' \
        |grep -m1 "[0-9][0-9]:" \
        |sed 's/^/Date: /;
            s|: *<a href="|\nURL: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/|;
            s/">/\nTitle: /; s/<.*$//'
    echo
    echo "#NASA #Astronomy #PictureOfTheDay"
}

#bash #ksh #mksh #shellScripting #unix #UnixShell #WebScraping #Scraping #HTML

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Ethan Black Feb 3

@rl_dane I've been getting into a shell called Elvish. https://elv.sh/
It lets you pipe around structured data like you find in modern programming languages, like arrays, maps, floating-point numbers, and the like. As well as normal POSIX byte streams.
It's not compatible with POSIX shells like Bash though, BTW.

#ElvishShell

Elvish Shell

Interesting, isn't that kind of what #PowerShell promised?

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Ethan Black Feb 3

@rl_dane It does actually remind me of PowerShell in a few ways, but in a good way. I'll keep learning it and find out more of what I think.

Random but with `*` filename matching, you can use modifiers in brackets. Yesterday I did `mkdir old` and then wanted to do `mv * old`, but found out I could instead do `mv *[but:old] old`.
Also TUI file selector via Ctrl+L.

When I find something I like, I end up feeling like a salesman and I don't like it 😆

> When I find something I like, I end up feeling like a salesman and I don't like it 😆

No shame in that, I'm still waiting for my fat commission check from Big #BSD. 😂