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Re:Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf] by Red_Tarsius on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:08AM (#43715604)
New readers might enjoy the tale of Emperor Sh and the Traveller: https://sanctum.geek.nz/etc/emperor-sh-and-the-traveller.txt
Re:Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf] by skydhash on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:53AM (#43716095)
I have followed the advice in this story for all my scripts. They are just better interfaces to collection of tools that already exists, not new tools. I write them when the subproblems are already solved by specific programs and the coordination does not require complex data transformation.