Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽A new version of the AWK book is coming out! In 2023!
https://awk.dev
Mac ships with One True Awk, but it's a few years behind:
% awk --version
awk version 20200816
sudo port install nawk
% nawk --version
awk version 20211208
Well, that's a little better, tho there's patches from 2023 in the repo. I just don't wanna pull, build, have to remember to repull & build sometimes.
Kevin Karhan 
@kkarhan That's also a security measure, post Shellshock. Nobody should use bash! Literally any other shell (not csh) is better, I went to zsh but whatever.
ben@kkarhan Unlikely ever to happen since a POSIX-compatible shell is always going to be a requirement in practice. Dropping bash for some other `sh`, and additionally installing fish, seems more likely.
But then there's no reason you can't install fish on systems you manage anyway.
@benjamineskola sadly I'm kinda forced to use #bash on #production aka. #WageWork.
But yeah, I really want to see a #FSF/#GNU-free #Linux distro...
@chimera_linux aims to do that...
: j@fabrica:~/src; 
@josephholsten @kkarhan ksh is still alive and well last I checked.
@benjamineskola @kkarhan Yep! ksh93u+m is my default shell. The real one, not a pdksh. But it’s not exactly “cool” like zsh, fish.
@benjamineskola @kkarhan And I more meant that at Linux shops, people mostly write shell scripts in bash, like they used to write them in ksh on commercial unixes.
@josephholsten @benjamineskola Yeah, because #bash is kinda the de-facto standard for #Linux not only as per #LSB but also because it's compatible with the original #sh.
#zsh would be the next best option to keep that, whilst #fish yeets any compatibility in favour of user-friendlyness and cleanness as languague!
@kkarhan @josephholsten no, I don’t think zsh is a better option for scripting than bash. Either stick with posix sh, or use a real programming language.
Zsh is fine for interactive use and so is fish but neither is really a solution for scripting.
@benjamineskola @josephholsten Personally, I do think that a #shell should make using itself a breeze [something #fish aims for] and be useful for scripting [the only thing #dsh is good at because it's not designed to be interactive to begin with]...
Based off a lot of feedback from others like @fuchsiii, I think #zsh is a good shell too.
I wished #bash would be replaced with #fish at least for the user to utilize per default, as bash is kinda a hard-to-replace dependendency on #Linux...
Scott Williams 🐧@kkarhan @benjamineskola @josephholsten @fuchsiii If you're up for an adventure, there's also #qbsh
@vwbusguy @benjamineskola @josephholsten @fuchsiii personally, I've also had some use time with #ash on #Busybox but that's just because I have on occasions dealt with #embedded devices and have a copy of #Floppinux.
And yes, I'm still intrigued on the idea of a #1440kB distro that one can blindly autoboot into and that automatically opens up #SSH to allow for remote login if not automatically opens it's own SSH tunnel.
Kinda like #XeLL...