Post #2306665

2026-05-01 12:11 UTC

Even if they don't write permanent scripts, understanding Bash better will make them more efficient at the command line. I've seen employees do painfully tedious things by hand because they don't know the basics of shell scripting.

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@idlestate@toot.cat 2026-05-01 13:47

@raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com bash is sort of a haven right now The disdain for it has left us in a state of benign neglect, without the pressures that have led other languages to a proliferation of package archives & dependency management created to try the impossible task of being all things to all people. Even the rise of fish & PowerShell on the one side and dash on the other reify the utility of this mode of working, something that so readily can be either interactive or scripted. There is a raft of scripting languages that can be used interactively but beyond newcomer introductions or troubleshooting I don't know that they get routine, continuous, ongoing use. does anyone live in, say, a ruby or python or lua prompt like many of us do a bash (or adjacent unix-like shell) prompt? (I mean, I'm sure there might be low exceptions-that-prove-the-rule for each. But I mean, is there a community?)

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