Writing scripts for UNIX-like operating systems

[FlatAssembler]

Writing shell scripts has left a very bad impression on me. I have written two short scripts, and I have had to ask no less than three StackOverflow questions (Fortunately, none of them reduced my reputation, and one of them received two upvotes.). One would think that checking whether a program with some name is available is one of the most common things one would like to do in a shell script. Nonetheless, doing that is very complicated. And two times in two short scripts, I had to rely on truly mysterious fixes. I've written a rant about it on my blog:

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Boru