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Re:Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Sh... by rbonvall on Friday September 13, 2024 @08:54PM (#41536640)
In my opinion, shell scripting is the right tool when you need to do a lot of calling programs, piping, and redirecting. Such programs end up being cumbersome in "proper" languages.
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Re:Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Sh... by skydhash on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:39PM (#41536828)
If there are already software written to do the stuff and I'm just coordinating them (no other computation other than string manipulation) I'd take bash every day. I would only reach to python if I need to do stuff like manipulating complex data structures or something with heavy logic.
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Re:Techniques I Use to Create a Great User Experience for Sh... by sulandor on Saturday September 14, 2024 @05:37AM (#41538634)
"you can do anything not matter how horrible you feel"

but yea, shell is foremost a composition language/environment

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