Shell Style Guide

Re:Shell Style Guide by pstuart on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @11:37AM (#17074746)

I like bash, but I think I understand the hate -- it's the slippery slope of "gluing real applications" to "I can write this all in bash!". Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

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Re:Shell Style Guide by amptorn on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @04:08PM (#17077422)

I enjoy the section of the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide which explains how Bash has sparse arrays which "are useful in spreadsheet-processing software".[0] Because someone out there is apparently writing spreadsheet-processing software in Bash?

[0] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/arrays.html

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Re:Shell Style Guide by s3m4j on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @12:29PM (#17075185)

If the application can be reduced to some form of simple piping of existing programs...

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