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Why are we still running bash scripts? The only thing worse might be DOS batch files. It's not like python isn't available on every major linux distro. It's
by douche 12y ago
Why are we still running bash scripts? The only thing worse might be DOS batch files.
It's not like python isn't available on every major linux distro. It's a little harder to ensure it's on windows, but when Steam is installing every point release of the Visual C++ runtime that has ever existed on my system, why not bundle python in there too?
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- woodman 12y ago> Why are we still running bash scripts? Because admins gotta admin. Also, adding python to a software suite just to work on the file system... gross.
- mst 12y agoAnd even if it isn't, modern perl would do as well as python for this case, with no language wars required.
- douche 12y agoExactly. There are better options, that have more sane string and path handling. Much as I grumble about using Powershell on Windows, at least you've got the .Net framework underneath you that you can drop into relatively easily