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by joelthelion 2833 days ago
> Like I understand some people can legitimately program in bash [0]. But I just can’t bring myself to practice. Why would anyone inflict this language on themselves?

Bash has a lot of pitfalls, but once you learn how to deal with them, it can also be quite superb for some tasks. Piping the output of a complex set of loops into GNU parallel and watching your computer process stuff at blazing speed is a very nice experience. Doing the same in python would be many time more verbose.