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by skydhash 355 days ago
The true power of shell script is to coordinate programs. Once you find yourself altering data with the shell constructs, that's the sign to use $LISP instead.
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> The true power of shell script is to coordinate programs. Once you find yourself altering data with the shell constructs, that's the sign to use $LISP instead.

one might awk how much logic one can bash into a script before leaving the beloved shell

if it’s structured text, especially line based format. You can get in trouble when you want maps,2+D arrays, and variable length lists