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At that point, you care enough to put it under source control, and it shouldn't be a shell script. That's the entire point of the comment you replied to
by occams_chainsaw 8y ago
At that point, you care enough to put it under source control, and it shouldn't be a shell script. That's the entire point of the comment you replied to
- hueving 8y agoAnd that's a stupid heuristic. Simple bash scripts can be critical to a processing pipeline while still being the best tool for the job.
- JauntyHatAngle 8y agoIt's that arbitrary distinction that I am responding to. I don't agree that you should reserve source control for the complex. A shell script can be the appropriate tool for many important tasks.
- sverhagen 8y agoI agree that simpler scripts deserve to be in source control too. I read it to mean what I also would say, myself: if it's anything but the most trivial of scripts (so, rather _programs_), they shouldn't be in BASH. Some people in this discussion are clearly very well versed in BASH. Great. For average developers, though, it's hard to build (good) programs in BASH, and the rabbit hole swallows them. Every time.