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		skeledrew 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go away Python I love Python and dislike Bash, but just look at the difference between listing a folder in Bash vs Python, for example.

DrewADesign 18 days ago [–]

Right. Figure out if other users are logged in using Python. Get a human-readable remaining space on each partition.

It’s not like you can’t do in Python, but it’s a whole lot more work than typing <10 characters directly into shell.

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