Become Shell Literate

Re:Become Shell Literate by xx789 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @04:40PM (#25401988)

Sign me up for someone who hates the shell. I've always tried to write scripts in Python or even C++ is so much easier than bash, awk, etc. Bash has no repl, no unit tests not debugger its anachronistic. Don't get me started on emacs.

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Re:Become Shell Literate by tharne on Saturday December 12, 2020 @04:53PM (#25402091)

> Bash has no repl, no unit tests not debugger

Bash scripts are generally very short. If you need unit tests and a debugger you probably should be using something other than Bash. But saying you hate the shell because it's bad at something it was never designed for is silly.

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Re:Become Shell Literate by xx789 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @05:09PM (#25402227)

At work I regularly have to support 500+ line scripts written by random developers, I 'n hate them.

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Re:Become Shell Literate by hiq on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:38PM (#25402854)

Yeah I think that most people would hate this situation too compared to, say, similar scripts written in Python. But as parent said, the wrong tool for the wrong job is rarely a pleasant experience.

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Re:Become Shell Literate by hiq on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:39PM (#25402857)

Bash has no REPL?

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Re:Become Shell Literate by xx789 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @09:59PM (#25403935)

yeah OK its probably the definition of repl.

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