Re:The temptation of writing shell scripts, illustrated
by tux2bsd on Sunday April 24, 2022 @07:09AM
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Your examples are nice and clear, many projects could learn from you.
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Re:The temptation of writing shell scripts, illustrated
by ilyash on Sunday April 24, 2022 @09:07AM
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Thank you! I was thinking to add some code snippets on the website. Other projects do that and I think it gives you the "feel" pretty quickly.
Re:The temptation of writing shell scripts, illustrated
by tux2bsd on Saturday April 30, 2022 @02:52AM
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I loathe nearly all man pages, they are written in a manner that is as over the top and an absolute chore to digest. I believe it is a form on programmer one-upmanship, it is largely unnecessary and stalls common usage massively.
I made this recently and tried very hard to make it so that the vast majority of people that could use the command line could grasp what it did, usage is trivial:
https://github.com/tux2bsd/freebsd-update-probe
I guess what I'm saying is I like documentation written for humans (which you do).