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📣 greenfella

How many personal shell scripts do you use?


I'm just curious how many personal shell scripts people use. Some of my colleagues use none. I have amassed 165 in my Scripts directory. They are mostly bash scripts.

  👤 simonblack Accepted Answer ✓ 

    centrepoint [jvs] /home/jvs > ls binscripts | wc
        500     500    6555
Wow! A nice round 500. I couldn't have foreseen that. I knew I had a lot, I would have guessed somewhere about 200.

Definitely time I went through them all and started to discard the obsolete ones.

👤 rootbear
I seem to have about three dozen. Many of them are very simple and quite old and should probably be turned into shell functions in my .bashrc. Only a few are of any complexity.