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Re:Fast Markov chains in ~20 lines of sh, grep, cut and Awk by m31415 on Saturday November 09, 2019 @09:27PM (#21496022)
That's like saying a well-written C program is a good reference for C++. In any case, writing POSIX-only shell scripts is much harder than writing Bash scripts, which can often be much faster (e.g., one can use {1..10}, which doesn't need an external call, instead of `seq 1 10` to iterate through a list of numbers). For POSIX-only shell scripts, the ones used in Git [1] are some of the best-written I've seen.

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/search?l=shell

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