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Shell2014–2017
mattly / bork · Archived

bork

the Bash-Operated Reconciling Kludge

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
218GitHub stars
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the Bash-Operated Reconciling Kludge

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-09-20 15:34:21 UTC to 2017-06-09 19:06:31 UTC.

012014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Here is a declarative bash DSL I ran across a few months ago: https://github.com/mattly/bork and here is an example from their README: ok brew # presence and updatedness of Homebrew ok brew git # presence and updatedness of Homebrew git package ok directory $HOME/code # presence of the ~/code directory ok github $HOME/code/dotfiles mattly/dotfiles # presence, drift of git repository in ~/code/dotfiles cd $HOME for file in $HOME/code/dotfiles/configs/* do # for each file in ~/code/dotfiles/configs, ok symlink ".$(basename $file)" $file # presense of a symlink to file in ~ with a leading dot done
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