bash scripting is a great way to quickly automate a workflow, except halfway in I realize I forgot everything I knew about bash's syntax and it takes me ages to make it actually run

@elomatreb I am trying to loop over a list of strings, turns out
for x in "string", "string2", "string3" do echo $string; done
will give you
string,
string2,
string3

@noiob values are space-delimited (although you can play with $IFS to make it use other strings but it's pretty fragile IIRC)
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@elomatreb yeah I don't really wanna get that deep into bash

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