Batsh VS hledger

https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh

https://github.com/tdenniston/bish

(Just fyi. I've been collecting links to similar things because of Reasons).

I wish there was a nicer shell scripting language that simply transpiled to Bash and would generate all this boilerplate code for me. There is https://batsh.org/ which has a nice syntax but it doesn't even support pipes or redirection, making it pretty worthless for shell scripting. I haven't found any other such scripting languages.

There are some languages that compile into bash like Batch. Shell commands can also be called from Python code using this (never tried it): https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Maybe https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh

Not really what you're asking for, but a language that compiles to bash for portability reminded me of Batsh [0], a C-like language that compiles to bash for Linux/Mac and batch for Windows.

[0] https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh

There used to be something called Batsh as well but no longer seems to be actively developed

There are a couple projects that provide a language that compiles to Bash, which gets around Oil's portability problem somewhat. Bish and Batsh come to mind.

I'm surprised that there is no mentions of a great hacker-friendly plain-text accounting software called `ledger` https://ledger-cli.org/ in this thread. It has amazing documentation when it comes to understanding basic principles of double-entry bookkeeping and goes through many typical situations and usecases. There are also several forks, most popular and advanced is `hledger` https://hledger.org/ (h is for Haskell), which provides some neat features out of the box, such as a simple web interface. All of them are very primitive compared to "professional" accounting software, but in return it offers great opportunities for hacking around while ensuring validity of your books.

I've been using hledger[1] - similar tool but has more features like balance sheet, income statement generation with a plain text file for the last 3 years and it's been working out great. Before that I used iBank (rebranded as Banktivity) and don't miss it at all.

[1] - https://hledger.org

I can offer this (warning, crufty real-world scripts ahead!): these [make](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Makefil...) [files](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Makefil...) and this [bash script](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/a3c300b/bake) have been replaced by this roughly equivalent [Justfile](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/137d825/Justfil...) (some old things were commented out, some new things were added).

I'm only a few weeks in, and just has its own learning curve, but I'm very pleased overall. Cognitive load is down, usability is up, robustness is up.

https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/2047 . Thanks!

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