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hell, some of us still use bash As opposed to what? (Do all the cool kids now use zsh? That's my best guess.) Bash just had a major release, as well as a point
by telemachos 16y ago
hell, some of us still use bash
As opposed to what? (Do all the cool kids now use zsh? That's my best guess.) Bash just had a major release, as well as a point-upgrade to that. How is Bash now a poster child for out-of-date good tools that people won't let go of?
- astine 16y agoAs opposed to Perl for tasks that would be much easier with Perl scripts than with shell scripts. I know SysAdmins who do this. Perl won't be replaced as A SysAmin language of choice for while now, I don't think.
- swolchok 16y agoI suspect that the grandparent meant "write shell scripts".
- telemachos 16y agoDuh (aimed at myself). Right, sorry. Whew. I got scared there for a minute that I was so terribly behind the times (insofar as I still use Bash as my primary shell).