huf [he/him]

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  • i have bad news: bash is already a massively improved/extended ksh clone. ksh was a massively improved/extended sh clone. sh got a ton of improvements early on.

    this is about as good as you can get without breaking compatibility completely (bash already breaks compatibility with posix sh in some ways).

    anyway, once you’ve figured out the hermetic incantations required to work with filenames with whitespace in them, it’ll be time to write scripts that can handle filenames with newlines in them :D










  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.nettoLinux@lemmy.mlStop Using Bash
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    1 year ago

    yeah, consistency is way more important than whatever pet features people want.

    also, bash slow? what? it’s an interactive shell, the vast majority of time will be spent waiting for my input. unless you mean when you write scripts in bash? but surely nobody would do that when there’s perl…