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> Have you ever had the need to read the source code of a tool because it doesn't behave the way it should, and its help and documentation prescribes?

I believe this varies wildly programmer to programmer. I'm often diving into code and reading that when debugging. I've done this with many code bases. It may be debatable if any of them are "good".




People's quality bar differs in height, that's true, but I want to raise one example: https://rclone.org/install.sh

Which is readable, understandable and exceptionally good at what it does for 200 line bash script.

So, there's good code out there.




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