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nsd
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Announcing Hush, a modern shell scripting language
Repository of scripts written in the language - https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd
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Bash functions are better than I thought
> there isn't really an entry point in murex scripts
I have a nice trick in NGS for that. Under the idea that "small scripts should not suffer", script is running top to bottom without "entry point". However, if the script has defined main() function, it is invoked (with command line arguments passed).
Example - https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd/blob/afe0cad5e506ec4ee2fa924...
> `args` still contains more boilerplate code than I'm happy with
Is there anything preventing you to have exactly the same functionality but with syntactic sugar that it looks like parameters declaration? (Just to be clear, keeping all the ARGV machinery).
Something like (assuming local variables are supported; if not, it could still be $args[Flags] etc):
function hippo(name:str, hungry:bool) { -
I love jq, I hate jq. Help a competent grepper get a grasp on the terse language!
NGS Scripts Dumpster - collection of small scripts in NGS
- GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell
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No, you can't do it better in Python or bash (challenge)
Doing DevOps today? 99% either abuse bash or abuse a general purpose programming language.
bash does not meet any modern expectations from a programming language: syntax, error handling, data structures
General purpose languages such as Python, Ruby, etc are not domain specific enough to have the desired facilities.
Here is small example of straightforward solution to a small problem: list all CloudFormation stacks that are managed by the given CodePipeline.
https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd/blob/02d66abb844b7dd6077b9976e3a03659cf4b3660/aws/codepipeline/pipeline-stacks.ngs
- Which CloudFormation stacks are managed by a CodePipeline - script
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Delete CloudFormation Stack Including S3 Objects
The script is at https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd/blob/master/aws/cloudformation/delete-stack.ngs
- What is your favorite shell and why
fx
- Bash/Zsh autocomplete for JSON fields
- Fx 32.0, now with YAML support too
- Fx JSON viewer now supports YAML
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Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
There's also this awesome tool to make JSON interactively navigable in the terminal:
https://fx.wtf
- Fx 31.0.0 Release
- FLaNK Stack Weekly for 30 Oct 2023
- jq 1.7
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Modern Linux Tools vs. Unix Classics: Which Would I Choose?
Using awk/sed to parse json seems to be using the wrong tool for the job.
As an alternative to jq with easier to remember syntax, see https://fx.wtf/
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37567009
- Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer
- fx – terminal JSON viewer
What are some alternatives?
ngs - Next Generation Shell (NGS)
jless - jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.
bash-core - Core functions for any Bash program.
jiq - jid on jq - interactive JSON query tool using jq expressions
oh - A new Unix shell.
jid - json incremental digger
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
rq - Record Query - A tool for doing record analysis and transformation
nushell - A new type of shell
kubectl-jq - Kubectl plugin that works like "kubectl get" but runs everything through a JQ program you provide
basalt - The rock-solid Bash package manager.