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    [–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    who in their right mind would try to do this on Linux

    [–] ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    I could imagine a command like this being used as part of a CI/CD script doing static analysis in a virtualized environment where the build is running in a *nix container. There's more maintainable options as well (ie easier for an entire team of developers to understand / lower 'bus factor').

    Lol someone is so mad about this they're going around downvoting all my replies. Guess that's easier than coming up with a thoughtful reply and actually conversing but whatever you do you boo

    [–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Build scripts are often written in bash, yes, but I would say that you should find a utility program, or write your own utility in python, if you're breaking out sed. It's very hard to read code like this, no matter the team size.

    There's probably only 100-300 usages of sed in the entire nixpkgs repo, with over 100,000 packages.

    I definitely agree Linux is easier to maintain and build code on than Windows, but yeah abusing sed is not really an ideal use case 😅