There are many good reasons to use shell scripts. Mostly, a script can be useful when it's an alias that launches an application. Beyond that, I have doubts.
Incumbency is a popular argument for bash.
It's not a good argument, however.
Use invoke and you'll be much happier.
This is a great question.
https://fosstodon.org/@JustineSmithies/110979871574705636
This works, they said.
echo -en "Firefox\0icon\x1fweechat" | fuzzel -d -w 100 -l 10
But. The superficial switch to subprocess.Popen() doesn't work.
Why?
The way echo works varies from shell to shell. When MacOSX changes to zsh, things …
more ...A presentation I did recently.
https://github.com/slott56/bashing-the-bash
Folks were polite and didn't have too many questions. I guess they fundamentally agreed: the shell is awful, we can use it for a few things.
Safe Shell Scripts Stay Simple: Set the environment, Start the application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Seven S's …
more ...See Bashing the Bash — Replacing Shell Scripts with Python for some concrete examples of stuff you can do in Python or the shell.
And yes, it's a good, workable idea.
Background: https://medium.com/capital-one-developers/bashing-the-bash-replacing-shell-scripts-with-python-d8d201bc0989
And this
I wonder how/why python did not pick up some sort/form of pipe operator. 🤨 (although coroutine does have .send method 🤔)
—Ivan Pejić (@nadrimajstor) August 26, 2017
The answer to this is interesting because there are two kinds of parallelism. I like …
more ...Here's the actual quote:
Why would you need to rewrite a working script in python ? Was there any business direction towards this ?
This was an unexpected response. And unwelcome. I guess I called their baby ugly.
The short answer is that the shell script language is perhaps one of the …
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