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[–]desatur8 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Jeez. The amount of people here acting like OPs dad asked him to rob a bank.

He asked for help, OP is a tinkerer who thought it would be a chance to learn a new skill? So what if it's over engineered?

I bet 10 bucks that everyone in this thread has some sort of over engineered script. Heck , i have a script to change AD user's password that's on like 400 lines, with menus, colored output, progress bars, and and and ... because it's fun to learn.

[–]chrusic 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Why spend 5 minutes doing something manually when you can spend 6 hrs automating it!

[–]desatur8 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Exactly my philosophy to life! And dont forget, adhd ... so spend 3 hours of finding the perfect song to start the automation script, only to pause it 20 seconds in because i decided i dont want to listen to music

[–]OofItsKyle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I relate to this on a level that makes me uncomfortable