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In article <ue3qnr$3omqt$1@dont-email.me>, <Muttley@dastardlyhq.com> wrote: ...

Seems to me far too many people try and use shell script way beyond what it >was intended to do - ie navitage the file system, link commands together and >job control - and use it where they'd be far better off simply using perl or >python (or even awk) which leads shell authors to bung in features no sane >person in their right mind would ever need, never mind use.

You know what they say about opinions.

Everybody's got one.

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On Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:10:28 -0000 (UTC)
gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) wrote:

In article <ue3qnr$3omqt$1@dont-email.me>, <Muttley@dastardlyhq.com> wrote: >....

Seems to me far too many people try and use shell script way beyond what it >>was intended to do - ie navitage the file system, link commands together and >>job control - and use it where they'd be far better off simply using perl or >>python (or even awk) which leads shell authors to bung in features no sane >>person in their right mind would ever need, never mind use.

You know what they say about opinions.

Everybody's got one.

I don't present mine as fact. Plenty of others do. Plus I've been working
on *nix for 30 years and only twice have I seen anyone try and get clever
with shell scripts , in one case using co-process in bash. In both cases
their code was fragile and didn't cope with edge cases and they'd have been better off writing it in a language that had far better error handling.
$? and trap simply don't cut it beyond a certain level of complexity.

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On 2023-09-16, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

In article <ue3qnr$3omqt$1@dont-email.me>, <Muttley@dastardlyhq.com> wrote: ...

Seems to me far too many people try and use shell script way beyond what it >>was intended to do - ie navitage the file system, link commands together and >>job control - and use it where they'd be far better off simply using perl or >>python (or even awk) which leads shell authors to bung in features no sane >>person in their right mind would ever need, never mind use.

You know what they say about opinions.

Everybody's got one.

The version I remember is:

Well, you know, opinions are like assholes: everyone has one.

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In article <20230917122406.211@kylheku.com>,
Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> wrote:

On 2023-09-16, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

...

You know what they say about opinions.

Everybody's got one.

The version I remember is:

Well, you know, opinions are like assholes: everyone has one.

Yup.

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