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		itchyouch on July 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to write idempotent Bash scripts Chef does have an action on their primitives, so it is possible in the directory example to set the action to :delete instead of only implying :create

mnutt on July 7, 2019 [–]

You’re right, it’s totally functional, the (minor) challenge I see with it is that it breaks the illusion that you’re describing the state of the system, and feels more like describing a set of changes you want to make.

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