My fascination with Bash Shell Scripting started just 3 months ago. Prior to that, I never had any knowledge with what and how to bash. It has prov...
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Being heavily invested in shell scripting sometimes makes it hard to shift gears to other "real" languages. Haven't really found much, yet, that I can't accomplish more quickly in a shell script (due to the reflexive nature of same) ...And have also had a lot of people look at my shell code and remark, "I didn't know all of that could be done in shell scripting."
Would you say then that shell scripting is a beneficial "language" to learn? I have read blog posts saying that learning to shell script is a waste of time.
Depends on what you're doing. If you ever need to do OS-level tasks (rather than pure application-development), then it's foolish not to learn how to automate and optimize the execution of those tasks.
I work in bash since the dawn of #Linux
Wow! How often do you use bash and for what tasks?
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I use bash over the whole gamut, from simple tasks as managing files & directories in
~to (simple) programming & scripting where it is just vital to have a shell you are comfortable in.There are many flavors of shells, so you will also meet people who love #csh #ksh #zsh (had this on my Amiga) #ash #sh (the original Bourne shell)
Whatever OS I'm in, I install git, since it also has git bash in case you are on an OS which has no bash installed.
This is an example of how I use git to manage markdown files all via bash
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I can easily move to another workstation and OS. Then I can pickup where I left off transparently as if nothing happened.
I could also sync my ~/.bash_history via my network, if needed instead of ssh-ing to the machine to peek into the file to lookup a complex ssh tunnel pipe I've forgotten the exact syntax to.
Since I also spawn all executable from the shell ever since the #c64 & #amiga computer era (Amiga CLI), I have a shell open whenever my workstation runs. In case of this #DAW it's 24/7
On servers and workstations I basically live in $bash
()#DAW -> digital audio workstation
Like when working on nose project. Or when on working on python security modules like sqlmapper
Using bash for some basic staff, like moving around directories, scp-ing files to/from my VPSs, crontabing some basic regular operations, logs checking etc. Would love to upgrade my level of bash :)