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lapfog_1

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2. shell scripts are the APL of scripting languages.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2018, 03:07 PM

Mar 2018

good for a one time action, not generally maintainable or provable ( only because they are generally written without much thought as to error recovery or unexpected input handling )

Speaking as someone who has written code and scripts for a living for over 35 years now.

I rarely see well-documented shell scripts.

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