alt Hacker NewsThe conveniences also mean that there is more than ~one~ ~two~ several ways to do something.
Which means that reading someone else's shell script (or awk, or perl, or regex) is INCREDIBLY inconvenient.
The conveniences also mean that there is more than ~one~ ~two~ several ways to do something.
Which means that reading someone else's shell script (or awk, or perl, or regex) is INCREDIBLY inconvenient.
Yes. There are many reasons why one shouldn't use sh/bash for scripting.
But my main reason is that most scripts break when you call them with filenames that contain spaces. And they break spectacularly.