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by johnchristopher 1341 days ago
> you could easily imagine some Python-esque shell language (xonsh?) and have that be:

> print(os.path.exists("ssh://user@rsync.net:fileThatExists"))

That's just invoking the whole jungle when all you want is a banana.
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rtpg 1341 days ago
What do you think happens when you invoke a shell? It's not some magical primitive, it also does string parsing and all the other stuff that a scripting language requires. SSH also has to parse the line!

I did say Python-esque (I do get that Python in particular has a lot of stuff in its prelude). Really if you want to be super pedantic then the most "banana"-y isn't a line in your shell but some C library calls on both sides of the system.

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johnchristopher 1340 days ago
> What do you think happens when you invoke a shell?

It doesn't crash because I forgot to import os ?

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