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chapstoday at 8:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

Once had a coworker tell me to never to use this because "you never know when the customer doesn't have bash installed; use python instead" even though our contract required that the customer had bash. I'm still laughing at that.


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quotemstrtoday at 9:32 PM

FWIW, some distributions (I forget which ones, but I've seen it more than once) compile bash without the network features. Python is ubiquitous, and I've never seen it subsetted this way, so I'd have sided with the coworker.

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