Bash

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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “the methodology I describe below is based on what I'm able to do technically, which is pretty much limited to bash scripting”

  LUKEWARM · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “I still love the aesthetic of both using bash and the default template!”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-07-08

• “the ♥s (hearts) worked on whatever version of bash he tested with”

  MIXED · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-08

• “Just to replace a small <50 line bash script that could do more than either the shortcut or any paid app I know.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-02

• “I've built a lightweight watchdog (a mix of bash scripting and Uptime Kuma/Beszel) that monitors my services and containers and restarts them if they crash”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-01

• “Handwritten bash scripts using git-replace and git-filter-repo [1] did a much better job”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-01

• “every machine that has dash also has bash, which is less broken in terms of 'echo' and so forth”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-30

• “it likes to get cute with bash commands instead of OpenCode's built-in tools”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-30

• “my main bash script on BSD, ~400 lines for backup, compilation and other admin tasks including a portable static text/plain web server have never failed me”

  MIXED · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-28

• “every AI agent uses the one shot bash_tool, where the state cannot persist across its tool calls”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “I ended up writing a shell script that used this feature of bash to send out heart beats. Fun times...”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “I understand my bash scripts, and know they won't just stop working going forwards”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “bash script there, ansible playbook. Fine, nothing I cant do, but saves some time boilerplating”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-06

• “I love composing code that basically feels like more generously spaced Bash "one-liners"”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “Bash scripts do a lot of ad-hoc data extraction/reformatting with string expansion, awk and whatever else to get data to the next step in the script”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-02

• “Windows definitely feels weird and foreign if you are dumped into it after using Macs and Linux and bash for 20 years”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-26

• “The so-called "dumb terminal" in M-x shell is a thing of beauty as it really is just a text buffer like any other; I think of it as a bash repl.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-24

• “learned my way around bash a bit. Then I decided to create an upload script where I used PHP to call the ftp command on bash. I thought it was impossible but it wasn't and had to rethink about what web applications could really do.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-10

• “i was getting better at bash and powershell and regex and automating little tasks”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-03

• “It's not bash, which completely freezes then, e.g. when the network drive has a slow day, and I blatantly pressed Tab.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-16

• “Sometimes you're lucky enough you can safely assume bash is present”

  MIXED · Hacker News · 2026-03-29

• “With a few lines in a bash script my phone does daily backups locally.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-02

• “All of this is a 300 line bash script and a few template prompt.md files that I built in a few minutes with opus”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-22

• “I used to have a similar 'u' bash func that took a number like yours, the dots are better imo”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-21

• “a 300-line bash file that broke 6 months later because some brew formula renamed itself or Oh-My-Zsh changed their install URL”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-12