This is why I finally switched to nushell.
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I love Nushell
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
I feel same with regex....
VLOOKUP. Every time. Also Catan Cities and Knights.
I don’t write very small shell scripts because I am not a job destroyer.
Je comprend tellement! Je répond en français pour ma première réponse sur Lemmy juste pour voir comment ça va être géré!
I so understand! Answering I. French for my first Lemmy reply just to see how it’s handled.
Realizing now that language selection is mainly for people filtering. It be cool if it auto translated for people that need it.
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My google history hits for powershell for loop is is in the dozens.
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.
I have a confession to make: Unless shell script is absolutely required, I just use Python for all my automation needs.