I’m moving my posts from Reddit to Lemmy before delete them.

This post is from 2020-09-03.

  • Lemmchen@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Okay, you guys get the once in a liftetime chance to convince me that Bash is not the way to go. I’ll eagerly await your proposals.

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      1 year ago

      There are two massive points no one has mentioned yet.

      • Quoting every expansion isn’t necessary in Zsh. Parameters don’t split or glob by default.
      • $array actually expands to every element in an array.

      Compare this between Bash and Zsh:

      a=('/* hello */' 'world!' '  ')
      printf '"%s" ' $a
      
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        $array actually expands to every element in an array.

        Very convenient. But ~every shell script is written in bash or POSIX(y) sh. When I need to write shell scripts I begin with busybox sh compability. If it turns out to be too complex, I’ll convert to bash. This is because if I ever would publish the script it would have better changes to be accepted as a PR for example. Yes. Bash is a mess. I don’t even like it that much. It’s okay. But it’s more standard then zsh. Although I’ve seen the tides turn on some occasions, like macOS.

        Maybe some day I’ll give zsh a second chance.

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          I used to write Bash more than anything, but now the things I write are either simple enough to keep POSIX or complex enough that I miss the extra niceties Zsh provides.

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            but now the things I write are either simple enough to keep POSIX or complex enough that I miss the extra niceties Zsh provides.

            Well said!