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		AndrewDucker on July 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls All of this makes me happy that I use Powershell, where my output isn't some text I need to carefully parse (avoiding edge cases), but a list of objects, each of which has properties for me to interrogate.

ams6110 on July 6, 2014 | [–]

Of course bash is not the only shell, nor is it the only approach for scripting on Linux/Unix. See e.g. perl, python, etc.

recursive on July 6, 2014 | [–]

Linux seems like a very nice operating system. I can't wait until it gets a serious command line interface.

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