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I have been following this advice for about five years with my scripts and the best result has been compliments from co-workers and others who have picked up th

I have been following this advice for about five years with my scripts and the best result has been compliments from co-workers and others who have picked up the scripts and felt like they had a much better understanding of what the scripts were doing. Combined with use of shellcheck and shfmt working in shell scripting has come a long way in the last couple years. I still feel like BASH is a dead end--the quoting and whitespace issues combined with the bifurcation caused by Apple not shipping Bash 4.0+ make moving to Python probably the better course in 2020.

ramses0 6y ago
It's so unfortunate about Bash + Apple. Bash probably deserves to die out, but Apple has really pulled a bait-and-switch on OSX's *nix/bsd underpinnings over the years.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  Die out and be replaced by what?
  - stjohnswarts 6y ago
    Powershell? It's available for linux now
    - nobody9999 6y ago
      > Powershell? It's available for linux now I'd rather have my tonsils extracted through my ears. I went the other way[0] decades ago and never looked back. [0] https://www.cygwin.com https://www.cygwin.com
      - stjohnswarts 6y ago
        I was mostly joking. The verbosity of powershell just makes me throw up in my mouth a little time every time I have to deal with it.
        nobody9999 6y ago
        Oh noes! I've been Poe'd![0] But I really would recommend Cygwin[1] for anyone who needs to use Windows. Having a real shell makes a big difference. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law [1] https://cygwin.com https://cygwin.com
- wodenokoto 6y ago
  Aren't Apple helping out here by defaulting it zsh?