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 . -
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