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yjftsjthsd-h on May 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: When Bash scripts bite

> better data structures such as arrays or dictionaries or sets

POSIX sh doesn't have these, but BASH actually does have arrays, and even dicts (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/688849/associative-array...)

nerdponx on May 12, 2017 [–]

And if you're willing to spend time learning Zsh, you have a surprisingly reliable and expressive language.

Or you could just learn Perl...

kps on May 12, 2017 | [–]

Or ksh, which bash was a half-assed imitation of.

Or if you're just stringing commands together, traditional simpler Posix sh (note: 'bash --posix' isn't).

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