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Is it possible to use python as a shell replacement? [duplicate]
Recently I was looking at python's shutil and subprocess etc... And I started wondering: wouldn't it be ok to use python instead of e.g. bash?
What am I missing?
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User Configuration of a Shell Script. Best practices?
I am writing a shell script with a few variables that should be configured by the user. There will be an installer for downloading and configuring the script, possibly by asking a series of question. ...
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Are “backwards” terminators for if and case unique to shell scripting?
In bash at least, if and case blocks are closed like this:
if some-expr
then
echo "hello world"
fi
case $some-var in
[1-5])
do-a-thing
;;
*)
do-another-thing
esac
as opposed to the ...
