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Re:Scripting with Go by jimbokun on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:52PM (#30648854)
I have a coworker who uses make for tasks that do not fit comfortably in a few lines of shell script, and it can make for very elegant and readable solutions. Without giving in to the procedural constructs that are so awkward in shell scripting languages.
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Re:Scripting with Go by tomcam on Saturday March 12, 2022 @02:49AM (#30649756)
That opened my mind… 30 years after I started using make. D’oh!
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Re:Scripting with Go by jjtheblunt on Saturday March 12, 2022 @03:07PM (#30654438)
i do that too...folks seem surprised, but it's handy
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