menherahair on Nostr: so obsoletion warnings now pulls the names to shitpost with from some source files. ...

so obsoletion warnings (nprofile…hu22) now pulls the names to shitpost with from some source files. to avoid duplicates I process them with a perl script and create the one final normalized file. this way I can throw whatever at it without vetting the source files and it'll work out.
the script just loops over them:
```
for my $file (@ARGV) {
open my $fh, '<', $file;
...
}
```

*before* it did that it'd just use whatever's in the /bin/ and /sbin/ on my box using bash globbing. to mimic this behavior I created a source file with contents of these and threw it in the mix, but this lacks the malicious spirit it would emit at me earlier so I wanted to hack something similar back in.
Perl can open refs to variables as filehandles, so I thought I'd just throw an array with globs in there in the script:
```
our $doxme = $ENV{DOXME};

for my $file (@ARGV,
$doxme? [glob('/sbin/* /bin/*')]: undef) {
open my $fh, '<', $file;
...
}
```
alas
>Can't open 'ARRAY(0x6339b212f430)' for reading: 'No such file or directory' at utils/mknames.pl line 19
Perl can open refs to *scalars*. It won't magic an array into a structured file for reading

after converting it it does what I wanted it to:
```
for my $file (@ARGV,
$doxme? \(join "\n", glob('/sbin/* /bin/*')): undef) {
open my $fh, '<', $file;
...
}
```
https://menhera.hair/git/obsoletion/commit/572bcc1074a4f90b18f80468ff63ebd59f46c1c4.html