Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs

Re:Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs by t-3 on Sunday June 28, 2026 @08:09AM (#48706632)

Weird footguns don't matter if you stick to using shell for control flow, composition, and interpolation, and don't use all the weird things you have to look up every time. It's also very easy to do something in the commandline then just

  tail -n 8 $HISTFILE > script.sh

and very little to no editing is needed to make that useful. Shell is not a programming language, it's an interface to the OS, and thinking about it like a programming language is just asking for frustration.

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Re:Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs by jt2190 on Sunday June 28, 2026 @08:57AM (#48706899)

> Shell is not a programming language, it's an interface to the OS, and thinking about it like a programming language is just asking for frustration.

I guess this just isn’t obvious to me. Where do you see the boundary between “interface to the os” and “programming language”?

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Re:Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs by t-3 on Sunday June 28, 2026 @09:10AM (#48706976)

Shell exists to give users a way to run programs. It was the user interface for UNIX, C was the programming interface. Yes, it's technically a programming language by any reasonable definition, but it's not meant to be used in the same way at all so that's not helpful.

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