Why aren't you using printf instead of echo?
Printf > echo
Jaxon Williams
Brayden Sanders
I don't always need formatted output?
Isaac Ross
Yes you do
David Reed
Prove it
Caleb Thomas
because I dont script in bash
shell scripting is retarded
write a c program, compile it. chmod +x it. place it in /bin. reuse it over and over again. this is the best method of writing your own system utilities.
Jeremiah Lopez
yeah but how do you execute and store the output of bash commands in C? If I knew this I'd probably scrap bash scripting.
Oliver Hill
Blake Brooks
you have to do some pipeshit to do that because unix
Joshua Green
that seems kinda hacky, with bash it's just built in
Sebastian Richardson
ah, pipes... what a goddamn nightmare Systems Programming was.
Austin James
>write a c program, compile it. chmod +x it
>chmod +x it
What kind of dogshit compiler doesn't make it executable on its own?
No need to answer, I already know you're just larping.
Nathan Fisher
>#!/usr/bin/env bash
pure gayness
doesn't allow you to pass any parameters to bash, like mandatory -e
use:
#!/bin/bash -e
and fuck all the sick distros that do not ship bash in /bin
Gabriel Morales
quintessential Any Forums post - bait, appealing to beginners (majority of users), strongly opinionated, inducing strong emotions, on a topic which is essentially meaningless
Jaxson Clark
Because about 95% of echos, I just want to print a simple message like "enter the output path" or "success". Most of the remaining 5% are simple variable replacements like "errors occurred in $nerrors items". The small number of times when I need to format a number or string, I use printf. All the other times, it's clunky and echo is simpler
Ryder Young
Yes it does
man7.org
>Running a script named 1.pl containing the following first line:
> #!/usr/bin/env -S perl -w -T
>Will execute perl -w -T 1.pl .
Samuel Bennett
cat is even better
Jaxon White
real men script in powershell.
Connor Young
Why not use all of them?
printf '%s\n' "`echo "Error code 4 occurred"`" | cat
Blake Jackson
Last time i used gcc (a few weeks ago) it didn't
Anthony Ross
Because it doesn't printf in your mom's vagina.
Carson Morris
>#!/bin/bash
bad because hard-coded bash path
>#!/usr/bin/env bash
good despite hard-coded env path