When I need a shell script, I write a PHP script instead. (PHP has its oddities,...

		TazeTSchnitzel on April 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? When I need a shell script, I write a PHP script instead. (PHP has its oddities, but it has many benefits over Bash, including an optionally strictly-enforced type system, binary-safe strings, clear C-like syntax… and like Bash it has backticks!)