What do you see people unnecessarily reimplementing in bash?

• jq

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  Discontinued Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq] (by stedolan)

  

One that really bothers me is parsing formats like JSON or XML using text processing like grep/sed/awk instead of a purpose-built tool like jq or a language like Python that has support for that format built in. It just produces solutions that are way too brittle to rely on. In the past I've even written janky one-liners like this when I couldn't expect jq to be installed and didn't want to write my whole script in Python:

• modernish

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  Modernish is a library for writing robust, portable, readable, and powerful programs for POSIX-based shells and utilities.

  

Anything already implemented in modernish.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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