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Once had a coworker tell me to never to use this because "you never know when the customer doesn't have bash installed; use python instead" even though our cont
by chaps 4mo ago
Once had a coworker tell me to never to use this because "you never know when the customer doesn't have bash installed; use python instead" even though our contract required that the customer had bash. I'm still laughing at that.
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- quotemstr 4mo agoFWIW, some distributions (I forget which ones, but I've seen it more than once) compile bash without the network features. Python is ubiquitous, and I've never seen it subsetted this way, so I'd have sided with the coworker.
- chaps 4mo agoEh, looking around, I think you're thinking of Debian. They re-enabled it by-default back in 2009. So, sure, I guess. But if you're dealing with an OS that's from 2009 these days, whether /dev/tcp is enabled in bash or not isn't exactly relevant anymore. And I've seen enough broken python installs (even with stdlib) to put my faith in /dev/tcp working in bash :)