Ever tried to parse XML or json in linux shell?
It's not a matter of familiarity with linux shell. It's a matter of wasting time debugging/implementing stuff in shell that is trivial to implement in any modern scripting language.
It's not a matter of familiarity with linux shell. It's a matter of wasting time debugging/implementing stuff in shell that is trivial to implement in any modern scripting language.
But even JSON and (X|HT)ML you'd be amazed how often a simple grep can snag what you want, and regular expressions are also mostly universal so nearly everybody can read them.
Python wasn't our main language (the app was in C++ and QML which is basically java script). But we both knew Python and it's the easiest language for these sort of things that we both knew and that comes with the system.
My main conclussion is - I'm starting with python the next time.
Life's too short to check for the number of arguments in each function.
Any complex or cross-platform C++ projects will need a scripting language in addition to shell and a build system.
Ha! The Oil shell does that for you :)
https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.8.0/doc/idioms.html#use-p...
(It's our upgrade path from bash)
[0]: I'm sure there's a jq style library for python somewhere but it's definitely not the norm.
and yes, parsing XML or JSON in "linux shell" is very easy. For JSON use jq, for XML use xml2 or xmlstarlet.
Fortunately for me a 10 whole lines of sed, awk and some trimming and a for loop turned my json into a CSV to pass back to a legacy system. No curl or json modules necessary. That being said, if I needed anything more complex Python would be my default.