I too used shell a lot back in the day. I once wrote a 5000+ line system to handle database administration and a bespoke email system with retries to handle flaky communications. But that was a long time ago and requirements that forced the use of shell. These days I still write small shell scripts but for larger scripts I use python. I find that shell is even better when interfacing with a Linux system than python, but python is better at higher-level logic and control.
Interesting. I use a lot of python and nodejs for my apps, maybe this shell angle is a weird quirk I developed for no particular reason. I keep a seperate repo called “manager” and use it to manage my other parts of the stack like, “run tests for each repo, bump version, commit to git” with a single CLI command. I have no idea why that started. My guess is an agent created a shell script and I just went with it and built up around it. Good to hear other perspectives. Thanks!
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I too used shell a lot back in the day. I once wrote a 5000+ line system to handle database administration and a bespoke email system with retries to handle flaky communications. But that was a long time ago and requirements that forced the use of shell. These days I still write small shell scripts but for larger scripts I use python. I find that shell is even better when interfacing with a Linux system than python, but python is better at higher-level logic and control.
Interesting. I use a lot of python and nodejs for my apps, maybe this shell angle is a weird quirk I developed for no particular reason. I keep a seperate repo called “manager” and use it to manage my other parts of the stack like, “run tests for each repo, bump version, commit to git” with a single CLI command. I have no idea why that started. My guess is an agent created a shell script and I just went with it and built up around it. Good to hear other perspectives. Thanks!