Re: [dev] philosophy of the s shell

2017-04-10 Thread mail
I like the idea of only having commands, environment variables, pipes, and conditions (with && and ||). This has some purity, not using the shell as a programming language, but as a tool to compose other programs. I was worried about a few things not being possible at all, like: find . -

[dev] philosophy of the s shell

2017-04-10 Thread rain1
Hello I wrote a blog post explaining the philosophy of the 's' shell better. Here it is reformatted for email, I hope it'll be interesting to the suckless group: # { :; } After the Shellshock bug happened they fixed the parsing bug in bash that let people hijack webservers by simply includi