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:O

And I thought my unholy xmllint -xpath (bad stuff, lots of slashes) ${1} |sed -r -e s/this/that/ -e s/alsothis/alsothat/ -e /ohyeahthistoo/somethingelse/ | grep something | while read AA; do stuff then echo ${COUNTRY},${SIGN}$(perl -e "printf('%.2f', ${VAR}/1000000)"),${ENTRYDATE}; done|sort

was as bad as things get. I need to get my horror code game up. I mean, not only is the code awful, its very purpose is horrifying (XML to CSV with some transformations, bit of math, all without being able to use any external sources due to security, only what's in a baseline RHEL7 (soon 8, yay!) ).

I promise I'll rewrite it in python at some point.



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