Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by geekthattweaks 1496 days ago
I've been trying to do more shell scripting. Often it goes quicker than the Ansible writing and is easier to read imho.
1 comments

Shell scripts have so many nasty edge cases and quirks. Quoting and `find -print0` aren't enough to not get bitten. And doing the equivalent shell work in Python can be kind of exhausting and maybe prone to different errors.