A second search for bash scripting alternatives SHELL SCRIPTING IS something most programmers will encounter often – especially if doing dev-ops, automation and general Linux work. Unfortunately we are mostly stuck with bash. There surely must be better alternatives… I have been in search for a bash replacement before. My Read more…
I AM CONTEMPLATING using a scripting language for a small project. In the initial phase, the script will just be a shallow front-end for an existing program which will do all the heavy lifting. With that in mind, a dedicated shell scripting language like bash would seem more fitting. I’m Read more…
RIGGING A BUILD system sounds very serious! In this case it was not though. More a case of friendly messing with the coworkers. A coworker recently reminded me of a “feature” I had put into a build script… Actually this mentioned “feature” was “features” and put in an umbrella script. Read more…
AWK WAS SCARY but proved to be awesome! awk is not something I usually have reached for, when having to do more that trivial text processing tasks. Well, the classic column print functionality of awk is so strait forward that its unavoidable ;-) cat data.csv | awk -F ‘,’ ‘{ Read more…
A FISH SHELL installation resonantly led me down a wormhole of new information. Hyperlinks are the greatest thing ever invented – but can also be somewhat of a time consumer :-D I decided to install the fish shell. I’ve tried it before a long time ago, so thought it would Read more…
JANET IS A programming language that can be used for systems scripting or be embedded in other programs. For further details read more at the Janet site. My interest revolves around getting a portable language that could replace bash for scripting on a small arm based platform. This is the Read more…
A SEARCH FOR BASH Scripting Alternatives TOC 1. Introduction 2. Not Meeting Criterias 3. Shells and Shell Languages 4. Scheme Languages 5. Scripting Languages 6. Finalists 7. Conclusion 8. Appendix Readers note: this blog post did not convert entirely correct to WordPress. Consider reading original edition at: https://github.com/monzool/A-Search-for-BASH-Scripting-Alternatives 1. Introduction Read more…
BASH SCRIPTS HAS the inherit property of script languages of being readable by the users. Sometimes it is desireable to at least attempt to hide the inner details of a script. There are a few possibilities to do at least a bit of scrambling of the contents of a script Read more…