[HN Gopher] Processing Semi-Structured Data in the Unix Shell
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       Processing Semi-Structured Data in the Unix Shell
        
       Author : lordylord
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2021-08-08 06:33 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
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       | pwdisswordfish8 wrote:
       | How does it distinguish between the Boolean value false and the
       | string "false"?
        
         | gkfasdfasdf wrote:
         | Good question. From the man page, looks like boolean values map
         | to a file with contents either 'true' or 'false', while NULL
         | values map to empty files.
        
         | xiaq wrote:
         | According to https://mgree.github.io/ffs/ffs.1.html, it tries
         | to autodetect the type (so false will default to a boolean) but
         | you can explicitly specify the type via extended attributes.
        
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