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Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> 26C.Z969 <26C.Z969@noaada.net> wrote:
>> 
>>   If you have to do major research/experiments to kinda
>>   make it work in Bash then you shouldn't use Bash for
>>   whatever.
> 
> Ohh where's all the fun in that? But with Bash you at least do
> those experiments during development. With Python the experiment
> is done every time you try to run a script you found on the web and
> discover it requires some older/newer version (maybe a minor
> version, as has been my experience). Or when you upgrade the
> interpreter and discover all the stuff they've now broken in your
> own scripts. No thanks!
> 
> I get that if you're appauled by Bash as a programming language,
> there are other options that you might like better. I'm not
> appauled though, and I expect that anyone who is would have
> discovered Python or other alternatives for themselves anyway.
> 

I think that the problem is that Bash is not a programming language it's a
script language intended to do stuff that you would otherwise do from the CLI.

One of my latest bash scripts, among other things had to take a list of files
of the form "somestuff-p*.dat" but not if there is a "-H" before the ".dat",
where after p there is a parameter value that goes from .5 to 10 in irregular
interval, run them in increasing param order through a program and collect the
result in a file:

ls somestuff-p*.dat |grep -v -e -H | sort  -k 1.12 -n|xargs -n1 dostuff >> file.out

I have no idea how to do that in any programming language I know, well not
without wasting a lot of time...

Writing programs in bash is like doing statistical analysis in Excel, people
do that but it's not the way to go.

G