Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Julia Evans @b0rk@jvns.ca

5/7/2025, 5:08:31 PM

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trying to come up with some advice around quoting/escaping/tab completion in the shell and not coming up with as much as I thought I would! so far I have:

- sometimes you can drag a file from a GUI file manager to escape it properly
- tab completion is great

mostly looking for advice around using the shell interactively, not scripting (so not "always quote your shell variables”)

Sami Samhuri @sjs@techhub.social

5/7/2025, 8:36:57 PM

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@b0rkJulia Evans Use zsh’s url-quote-magic to automatically quote pasted URLs. I love this one! No need to use single quotes with curl anymore

https://github.com/samsonjs/config/blob/9a32974419a416006aa34a78471649a5ffaa034f/zshrc#L180

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://techhub.social/users/sjs/statuses/114468468673595409 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)