I feel like I’ve been severely underutilizing shell scripting. I first felt this way when I started using plan9 and discovering its shell named rc and how acme leverages shell commands for its scripting. Then more recently as I wanted to build a photo gallery html page generator, I kept thinking about what language to use to generate it thinking about node or go even be brutalist and doing it in C until @neauoire shared his generator that was entirely just written with a bunch of shell commands and it really hammered it in my head how much power can be had with just some basic shell scripts leveraging the existing power of your computer and OS. truly, the unix way.
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