4 Jan
2023
4 Jan
'23
7:58 a.m.
On Jan 3, 2023, at 6:37 PM, Bakul Shah
<bakul(a)iitbombay.org> wrote:
I write shell one liners all the time[1].
Go is just too verbose for scripting. I use it for larger programs but typically these
don't start out as shell scripts.
[1] In fact I use find (or zsh's **/*), xargs, grep, sort, uniq, field picking
often enough that I wish they were built-in a shell but I haven't figured out a
simple syntax for it as yet.
I was 50 years old before I learned that sort has a -u, so I could have saved the
pipe-through-uniq step.
I also keep getting told grep has a -r but my finger macros won't stop typing find .
-name \*.py | xargs ...
(And yes, it's GNU find just about everywhere, so I can do -print0 | xargs -0 and not
have to get fancy with the -I)
But also, crap, it was 25, count 'em, 25 years ago that a friend looked at my
workflow and said "I've never seen anyone use a GUI just as a way to keep a
dozen terminal windows open side by side before."
Adam