I like the idea of only having commands, environment variables, pipes,
and conditions (with && and ||). This has some purity, not using the
shell as a programming language, but as a tool to compose other
programs.
I was worried about a few things not being possible at all, like:
find . -
Hello
I wrote a blog post explaining the philosophy of the 's' shell better.
Here it is reformatted for email, I hope it'll be interesting to the
suckless group:
# { :; }
After the Shellshock bug happened they fixed the parsing bug in bash
that let people hijack webservers by simply includi
I think,
the suckless project is favourable for what is painless for the
mind. And that, in the perspective of the machine doesn't have to impose
the habits to man. Man have to decide which behaviour is the best in
relation with is environment. This ideal can look drastic for somebody, but for
me
