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mst on Jan 16, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted ...

And even if it isn't, modern perl would do as well as python for this case, with no language wars required.

douche on Jan 16, 2015 [–]

Exactly. There are better options, that have more sane string and path handling. Much as I grumble about using Powershell on Windows, at least you've got the .Net framework underneath you that you can drop into relatively easily

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