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Modernish
Jul 20, 2023
POSIX shell feature detection and language extension library
The programming/scripting language that incorporates the most frustrating combination of deficiencies and awesome power is probably the POSIX shell with accompanying utilities, which all exist in several variant implementations. Due to said power, the shell refuses to die as a scripting language. But when scripters are bitten by arcane grammar pitfalls, defective tutorials on the web, or shell functionality deficits, then ‘use a real programming language instead’ is generally the mantra.
Enter modernish, a new vision on shell scripting. Modernish aims to provide a standard library that allows for writing robust, portable, readable, and powerful programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities. It can solve the shell language problems mentioned above, and many more. With modernish, you’d almost think the shell has become a modern programming language!
The library builds on the POSIX 2018 Edition standard, so it should run on any sufficiently POSIX-compliant shell and operating system. But it also takes advantage of certain shell-specific enhancements if it detects them.
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