I wish that string command and also their math command were just general-purpose utilities pre-installed on all systems.
Tried to script something with sed the other day and was so confused why my regexes weren’t matching, until we realized you need to pass --regexp-extended to get modern-day regex.
And then I later tried to calculate an average, which bc decided to round down, because it was presumably doing integer math. I actually ended up running python -c "print($total / $count)", because I could not be arsed to work out, if there was some flag to make bc work properly.
I’m fine with these tools continuing to exist for legacy purposes, but I would like a modern replacement just about now.
string split/collect and similar can’t work unless its a builtin. The setfoo ( ...... | string ... ) pattern couldn’t work if string was an external binary.
I wish that
stringcommand and also theirmathcommand were just general-purpose utilities pre-installed on all systems.Tried to script something with
sedthe other day and was so confused why my regexes weren’t matching, until we realized you need to pass--regexp-extendedto get modern-day regex.And then I later tried to calculate an average, which
bcdecided to round down, because it was presumably doing integer math. I actually ended up runningpython -c "print($total / $count)", because I could not be arsed to work out, if there was some flag to makebcwork properly.I’m fine with these tools continuing to exist for legacy purposes, but I would like a modern replacement just about now.
string split/collectand similar can’t work unless its a builtin. Theset foo ( ...... | string ... )pattern couldn’t work ifstringwas an external binary.