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Thank you for this really helpful comment. It's like an encyclopedia's worth of bash information in one go--much appreciated.


You're welcome! Shell scripting has a weird language, unsafe by default, and very prone to mistakes... but knowing it well pays off.

People say that for complex things it's better to write Python, but that doesn't fly in embedded or Docker environments. Python is not even present in the default Ubuntu Docker images. Also if all you want to do is really write glue code between CLI programs, shell scripting is the way to go.

Happy coding!


I'll second the thanks. Thanks!




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