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Oh god, please no. I have PTSD from 50-line Python scripts by anti-bash fundamentalists full of
os.system
,subprocess.run
and/orsubprocess.call
that could have just been 15-line bourne shell scripts.If you're gluing programs together, shell scripts are often the best way to do it. If you're not gluing programs together, do you even Unix? If you want to be fundie about it, obey
shellcheck
.It sucks that bash is such a footgun. Perl was supposed to fix a lot of that, but now everyone hates it, because it also lets people to do clever and subtly incorrect things, which have then become quasi-idiomatic. Mom, can we have a sensible human-computer interface?