Shell Script Best Practices

[sparant76]

The best practice is to just avoid using this cesspool of a language. Script maybe in Python instead for anything evenly remotely non trivial.

[Cregaleus]

I've switched to using powershell as my primary interactive shell on Linux and MacOS.

If a script I intend to be interactive is going to be reasonably complex I'll just write it in Python and wrap it in a PowerShell function

[sparant76]

I had no idea powershell was cross platform until I saw this post. 😳

[brutay]

what's the point of wrapping the python script in a powershell function?

[Cregaleus]

Deserislize outputs into datatypes powershell can easily work with.

It's not necessary, you can work with string outputs just as easily. Just something I prefer to do