the fact that you can make your own functions and aliases makes me really doubt that people really understand the point of a shell. sure treating everything lik

the fact that you can make your own functions and aliases makes me really doubt that people really understand the point of a shell. sure treating everything like a string may seem really dumb. but its easy peasy. because, well everything is a string. once you accept that its not that hard. anytime i can predict i need to repeat a task i can just create a function like work_helpers__reset_dans_password_again, and then you have it there in your tab complete. or why not just run: work_helpers__reset_password dan i think its because people dont want to rtfm. if they would rtfm, they would learn most problems have a solution that is not insane like the one they are about to start developing. you know how often i see this: cat somefile |grep thething instead of just: grep thething somefile