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Re:Bash functions are better than I thought by rovr138 on Sunday October 31, 2021 @03:18PM (#29059530)
Perl used to be used a lot to automate things. I feel Python has taken some of that, but also have seen Bash being picked up more.
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Re:Bash functions are better than I thought by midasuni on Sunday October 31, 2021 @04:07PM (#29059936)
I tend to start writing things in bash (piping into things like grep, tac, sed, etc

However if I’m not careful they get painfully complex and I tend to regret not writing it in perk. As such I now switch to using Perl when I get to the function stage, or anything other than the most simple bash arithmetic.

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