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by zettabomb 580 days ago
Honestly I just don't write shell scripts anymore, bash or otherwise. By the time any system I use is up, Python is available. I don't know if I've found a true need for shell in anything application level. I'll even fire up a Python shell for something simple like mass renaming files, simply because the string manipulation is so much easier.
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Or, use the One True Shell[1]: https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/emacs-as-a-login-shell/

As a less joke but also more joke: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.h...

1: it was going to be much funnier if I could have found the link where someone used emacs as Xsession or similar but this one will do