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Writing a Bash builtin in C to parse INI configs

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7 days agoby namanyayg

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Self plug: https://github.com/lsferreira42/bash-ini-parser

4 days agoby lsferreira42

Huh. This made me curious about JSON which led to https://github.com/Wiguwbe/bash-json

I have had to graft JSON into legacy bash files enough times that this is worth another look.

6 days agoby lttlrck

Interesting! A use case I could see for using builtins would be to gradually rewrite a bash script in some other language, as otherwise you have to do it through subprocess which can be slow and inconvenient.

6 days agoby tracnar