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Any language is a shell script if you're brave enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29
Exactly #!/usr/bin/tcc -run #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf("Hello from C!\n"); for (int i = 1; i And ready is your cscript :) $ chmod u+x cscript && ./cscript hello world Hello from C! argument 1: hello argument 2: world (I can't even articulate why I love it so much that this works)
unclear use case imo - this sacrifices the ergonomics of actual bash scripting, and hides it behind another language If your script is complex enough to need a higher level language you might as well just switch to python
> Typescript to bash Literally the worst of both worlds.
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Exactly #!/usr/bin/tcc -run #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf("Hello from C!\n"); for (int i = 1; i And ready is your cscript :) $ chmod u+x cscript && ./cscript hello world Hello from C! argument 1: hello argument 2: world (I can't even articulate why I love it so much that this works)
Can you change the current working directory? If not, it's not a shell script.
$ cat bscript.sh && echo "---" && ./bscript.sh
#!/usr/bin/bash
cd testdir/
ls
---
dummyfile
$ cat cscript && echo "---" && ./cscript
#!/usr/bin/tcc -run
#include
#include
#include
int main(void)
{
if (chdir("testdir") == -1) {
perror("chdir");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
execlp("ls", "ls", (char *)NULL);
perror("execlp");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
---
dummyfile
If you meant somehow changing the parent shell's directory an ordinary bash script doesn't do that either
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Exactly #!/usr/bin/tcc -run #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf("Hello from C!\n"); for (int i = 1; i And ready is your cscript :) $ chmod u+x cscript && ./cscript hello world Hello from C! argument 1: hello argument 2: world (I can't even articulate why I love it so much that this works)
Can you change the current working directory? If not, it's not a shell script.
Or did you mean change the directory of the calling shell (in which case, executable shell scripts written in Bash and friends can’t do that either).
Hm... But why not use Python
Side note: the image of project founder cosplaying as Steve Jobs on front page had me dying.
This looks great. We have a lot of bash tools because it's the only stable interpreter that we have readily available on all our systems. But bash is a pain to write so this might actually make things easier.
How many places do you have Bash, but not AWK?
In a world where AI can generate any code for any environment, is there a need for another language? On the other hand, we're at a point for a binary language (or standard / framework) that one AI/LLM creates and another one validates. What are we missing?