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It won't be surprising since I wrote [1], but I mostly write bash when I want to create complicated pipelines with fzf, and I don't want to write Go code to go the same thing.

[1]: https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf/

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This is an excellent point about pipes. There seems to be no other language which lets you stitch together pipes like Bash does. It's incredibly powerful, and worth putting up with all of Bash's warts.

Thanks for fzf, by the way. Always one of the first things I install in a new environment.

They are not the author of fzf

Tbh the sentence + the link URL also tricked me into thinking that initially.

Argh, not my intention at all. fzf was written by https://github.com/junegunn , I merely wrote a tutorial on it that got unexpectedly popular on here some years back.

I'm sorry Junegunn! I would never dream of stealing that kind of valor. I'll remember to flag [1] as a tutorial I wrote explicitly in the future.

I didn't mean it was intentional, but the URL and the context ("I wrote this ", where "this" is not clear) made me think you were the author of fzf.

https://www.nushell.sh/ is next level when it comes to pipes:

    ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modified

You have my admirations for fzf, it helps me dozens of times every day. And I do understand that authors of such prominent tools will want to have tamed integrations with people's shells, makes perfect sense.

That being said, as a guy who does not have big prominent OSS tools under his belt, I am slowly but surely migrating away from shell scripts and changing them to short Golang programs. Already saved my sanity a few times.

Nothing against the first cohort of people who had to make computers work; they are heroes. But at one point the old things only impede and slow everyone else and it's time to move on.

Sorry, I was accidentally unclear in my writing. fzf was written by https://github.com/junegunn , I merely wrote a tutorial on it that got unexpectedly popular on here some years back.

I'm sorry Junegunn! I would never dream of stealing that kind of valor. I'll remember to flag [1] as a tutorial I wrote explicitly in the future.

Seems we both screwed up. :D

Thanks for the clarification.

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