The Biggest Shell Programs in the World

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Some folks might enjoy this - e.g. the Asus RMerlin scripting community...

The Biggest Shell Programs in the World

Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell! - oils-for-unix/oils

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Some might have a new target to hit...

 

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FWIW, years ago, one of my field engineers went off the rails (substance abuse, specifically meth). As one of his ongoing things, he wrote this really neat Perl script (note, singular) to do a lot of post-processing of device data logs. It was 100,000 lines of Perl—everything inline. The script contained parsing, pattern recognition for call flows, presentation—a complete, and insane, expert system. It was as fast as Perl could be in the late Intel Pentium 4/Core Duo laptop days, but it was also completely unmanageable.

Funny what drugs can do.

As a post-mortem, we had to let him go because of our zero-tolerance policy, and he was getting erratic towards the end.

The upside was that he did go through rehab, once on my watch and a couple of times after, and he got himself sorted out for a time. He got a master's degree, of all things, in cognitive psychology from UC Berkeley... Seemed all good until I started getting text messages and voice mails from him on what he believed were forces after him, and asking me for help...

He was a former Navy SEAL and we hired him as a field tech as his first job after he left the US Navy...

 

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I'm the author of certain wrapper scripts for video encoding on that list. For you to find out which

 

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In a similar line - sqlite3. It takes forever to compile regardless of how many CPU cores your PC has because almost everything is in a single 8.5MB source file...