Are there enough utilities in bash now?
I'm curious to know if bash is completely filling all the boxes and everything is perfect, or would it be great to have some more utilities? Share your thoughts.
Handling of maps/dictionaries could probably be improved. The current solution feels quite clunky.
I use shell for simple things like "do this for all the files in here". shellscripts for repeated stuff and wgeb it gets complicated i turn to programming languages like python
I don't understand the question. There is no perfection in software.
And what does "utilities in bash" mean? Do you mean features of specifically the bash-shell? Do you mean shell-tools in general? Or shells in general?
If you're talking about bash the shell scripting language then yes. In fact, I assert that removing dumb "features" is the only way to make it better.
Not really a utility per se, but I really really wish that echo {1..n} would run echo n number of times with the current index as the argument instead of expanding to a single string that gets printed.
I know you can do a for loop as a one liner but I somehow never get it right the first time and turns out to be a bit of a PIA.
I don't really use bash anymore for anything complex. The cognitive load of remembering all the commands and options is just too high. I simply describe what I need to do to claude code, and it gives me the exact one-liner I need. For me, that's the ultimate "utility" we've been looking for.