@rnkn If it’s useful and portable to #Windows users as well I would prefer #Perl. Not everyone can or wants to install #WSL or some other compatibility layer.
Also, it is very difficult to avoid #bash-isms or dependencies on non-#POSIX tools creeping into a #shell script, especially if you accept others’ contributions. (“Everybody has #GNU coreutils!”) There are tools and tests to mitigate this, but then you might want to automate them… and #Perl has way better testing tools.
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