Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible

Re:Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible by effie on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:49AM (#23650000)

Somehow that is not a real problem in practice. Maybe whitespace is not needed in paths that much. If a need to store a random byte string in a file name appears once in a year, one can encode it into hexadecimal or base64 with % replacing /.

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Re:Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible by ironmagma on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:39PM (#23654681)

That's sort of like saying, lack of pointer safety is not a real problem in practice. Yes, you can work around it, but when it's a problem for production systems dealing with sensitive or untrusted data it's a huge problem.

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Re:Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible by effie on Saturday June 27, 2020 @05:34AM (#23660610)

I don't see how the two compare. As a programmer, you need pointers for dynamic allocation. You don't need to use whitespace in paths, ever. It is a convenience for the user.

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Re:Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible by ironmagma on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:37AM (#23710053)

Whitespace in paths occur, similar to how buffer overflows occur. It's the job of the programmer to understand this and guard against it; but many don't. And all you need is one bash script that does something like this

  rm -rf $path

to go from working one day to having deleted an entire directory tree just because someone named their file

  "foo ."

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