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15 points
Really cool tool
Her mentions of awk reminded me of a guy at my last job who was an absolute god with awk, but making changes to scripts he made were a nightmare because no one else could figure out what he was doing, and everything crashed and burned from small changes.
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Sometimes a small python script that is readable is better for long term support.
4 points
Sometimes
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Shell scripting for serious tasks should crash and burn, wherever possible at least
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For all that I shit talk Microsoft, Powershell does seem better suited for production tasks than bash and friends…
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