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by 0bfusct3 5810 days ago
The same can be said for *nixes, in order to create something in sh using programs you need literally days of reading man pages for switches, etc or use perl, python, etc.. but even then many tools don't have bindings so you're back to use sh.

All operating systems currently popular are crap except for the most popular one in it's usage domain.
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ams6110 5810 days ago
This assumes you aren't online, where nearly any shell script example you can think of is likely only a google search away. I don't think that anyone really spends days studying man pages anymore. Though it's nice that they are there when you need to look up something system-specific.
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0bfusct3 5810 days ago
That's like saying language y is fine because I can just search and copy and paste... no you cannot. If you do anything beyond a simple [[ -f somefile ]] && do something sh turns into a nightmare.. case in point autotools.
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