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by beebeepka 1083 days ago
Yes, exactly. I have seen entire backend systems written in bash. Everything was shell script, sed and awk. The owner didn't want python or perl because he only knew bash and the related tools.

Everything was needlessly hard because these tools were not built for that. Easy to talk about philosophy and the "classic Unix approach" if you don't have to build modern applications this way.