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orbisvicis on Jan 11, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)

Control structures? Do you mean something like '{ cmd1 || cmd2; } | cmd3', where the control structures are the braces?

layer8 on Jan 11, 2025 [–]

“Control structure” normally refers to conditionals and loops. You can pipe in and out of a for loop in the shell, maybe that’s what they mean.

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