On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Greg Ewing
I know people who can read bash scripts fast, but would you claim that bash syntax can be any good compared to Python syntax?
For the things that bash was designed to be good for, yes, it can. Python wins for anything beyond very simple programming, but bash wasn't designed for that. (The fact that some people use it that way says more about their dogged persistence in the face of adversity than it does about bash.)
And any time I look at a large and complex bash script and say "this needs to be a Python script" or "this would be better done in Pike" or whatever, I end up missing the convenient syntax of piping one thing into another. Shell scripting languages are the undisputed kings of process management. ChrisA