The timeless beauty of shell scripts
A full-featured language is often overkill. Abraham Maslow’s quote comes to mind: “It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” I don’t mean to disparage Python, but I feel shell scripts are often overlooked and under-appreciated, especially as they are so accessible. Technically, you’re already shell programming when you run a program from the command-line. Why not learn a bit of Bash or similar, and increase the power available at your fingertips?
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I've been recently using shell scripting more and it's really amazing how powerful tools they are. Investing even one evening in learning basics of bash and awk can give one some superpowers.
