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		WJW on June 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robus... All files are temporary if your timespan is long enough.

abwizz on June 21, 2023 [–]

my oldest file (sadly) is only from 2003.

how about you?

WJW on June 21, 2023 | [–]

Difficult to say. The oldest file I could find says it's from 1989, but it got onto my machine a lot later. There's also a lot of "Ship of Theseus" going on, since it's a source code file that has seen lots of revisions over the decades.

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