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kennydale on June 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: No Code

if Unix utilities could do a thousand different things instead of just one - then yes :)

p2t2p on June 16, 2020 [–]

Well, I mean there are cloud services that serve one function, like sending emails (MailChimp) or storing files (Dropbox) and then you glue them together with IFTTT. Analogy of Unix utilities and shell scripting comes into mind by itself.

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