Telling a Computer to Do Things

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Over the course of years, I slowly started to learn more shell tools and figure out shell syntax. I’m certainly not arguing that shell scripts will always be easier for build scripts! When problems are simple enough that you’re just stitching two programs together, a tool like Bash or Zsh feels pretty ergonomic.

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