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Re:How to write idempotent Bash scripts (2019) by reacweb on Thursday December 09, 2021 @07:42AM (#29496715)
you will probably love perl. Perl encourages this programming style :

    unlink ('file.txt') or die "Can't remove file.txt: $!";
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Re:How to write idempotent Bash scripts (2019) by julian_sark on Thursday December 09, 2021 @08:27AM (#29497058)
Somewhat paradoxically, my opinion on perl can't be (cleanly) reproduced here ;)
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