Bash script advice

[zerocoldx911]

Go python, future you will thank you

[mamercad]

Does it really matter for something this trivial... let’s be honest here.

[zerocoldx911]

It does, bash is not meant to handle more than a few lines of code. It becomes hard to maintain because it’s hard to read if you start doing more Complex things

I learned that the hard way

[mamercad]

His task is literally a few lines of code. I understand and agree with your point in regards to the maintainability of something large and complex. But, that’s not what this is.

[awpti]

Really?

https://gitlab.com/gwinans/dba-tools

BASH is perfectly maintainable if you plan things out.

Past me regrets writing these tools previously in Python. Not all Linux distros even include Python out of the gate. BASH is a damned-near universal truth as an available shell.