Ask HN: What is the coolest thing you have seen done with a bash script?

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  • shell_snake

    portable posix shell snake game without bashisms

    so shameless selfplug, a game:

    https://github.com/bittorf/shell_snake

    There is also a tetris.sh lying around somewhere...

  • bash-tpl

    A smart, lightweight shell script templating engine, written in Bash

  • InfluxDB

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  • my-alternatives

    A wrapper for update-alternatives offering user-level customizations with support for Debian, SUSE, and RedHat

  • neofetch

    🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

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