Incredibly true for me these days. But don't fret, shellcheck and tldp.org is all you need. And maybe that one stackoverflow answer about how to get the running script's directory

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Or it’s because other people are assholes. And write shit garbage. And then you go to fix a bug or add an enhancement. And then you are stuck.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

VLOOKUP. Every time. Also Catan Cities and Knights.

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is why I finally switched to nushell.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love Nushell

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’d been considering it for awhile, but thought it wasn’t worth the trouble of switching until I realized just how often I do things the tedious manual way because writing a bash script to do it is so arcane

[–] DarkShaggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I feel same with regex....

[–] Akito@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Very true. Been programming/scripting in Bash since many many years, I could almost consider myself an "expert", however I still need to look up the same crap over and over again, since remembering weird symbol constellations is the last thing you should do, when you actually just wanna achieve a goal with the script and not learn how to summon the spirit of some C-related language creator.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

I’ve switched to nutshell imo. Bash is in need of a replacement

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