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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by GoblinSlayer on Friday October 28, 2022 @08:20AM (#33370480)
I wrote such a program, that runs other programs for heavy lifting but also parses text which you can't possibly do in bash.
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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by sargstuff on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:42AM (#33372881)
bootloader, systemd, or init ?

Parsing text isn't anything fancy.

It's just knowing what the marker is for a word/item boundary.

For bash, that marker is defined in IFS

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @08:21AM (#33434552)
A build system for single file programs.
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