Bash functions are better than I thought

Re:Bash functions are better than I thought by vlovich123 on Sunday October 31, 2021 @10:48PM (#29062583)

It’s not more complex in Python if you use the sh package. All the power of everything you need with a real language when you need to do more.

Packaging in Python is a bit more of a pain.

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Re:Bash functions are better than I thought by coliveira on Sunday October 31, 2021 @10:52PM (#29062602)

That's the other part of the problem. The shell is available everywhere. Python needs to be installed. So, if you need shell-related functionality, it is the easiest route to use.

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Re:Bash functions are better than I thought by vlovich123 on Monday November 01, 2021 @12:05AM (#29062898)

I have not encountered a system yet where Python isn’t installed out of the box.

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Re:Bash functions are better than I thought by dotancohen on Monday November 01, 2021 @03:12AM (#29063825)

Windows, possibly. And as for the *nixes, including Macs, what version is installed? The way Python 2 eol was extended and extended and extended just hurt the whole ecosystem.

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Re:Bash functions are better than I thought by vlovich123 on Monday November 01, 2021 @02:39PM (#29070984)

Windows doesn't have bash preinstalled so I'm not sure why you're bringing that up. On all OSes I've used in the past 3-4 years all of them have been Python3 by default. The specific version is largely irrelevant as I could ask you the same question about which version of bash is running on a given OS (e.g. it's not available on Mac out of the box as the default shell is zsh due to GPLv3).

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Re:Bash functions are better than I thought by dotancohen on Thursday November 04, 2021 @10:44AM (#29107820)

  > Windows doesn't have bash preinstalled

I meant Python preinstalled.

  > On all OSes I've used in the past 3-4 years all of them have been Python3 by default.

Windows comes with Python preinstalled now?

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