Bash gets shellshocked [LWN.net]

Bash gets shellshocked

Posted Oct 2, 2014 0:05 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
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Bash gets shellshocked

Posted Oct 2, 2014 18:32 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (2 responses)

One of my favorite pet peeves is that when people program decide to program in perl, but their perl code ends up just executing a endless number of shell commands... especially when the perl built-ins or standard modules have much easier/faster functions to perform common tasks.

Bash gets shellshocked

Posted Oct 2, 2014 18:41 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

one of my "professional programmer" horror stories was when a short (20 line, and admittedly ugly) shell script I wrote was handed over to the company Engineering team to take ownership and responsibility for. Four months later we got the result back, a 200 line perl program with about 15 different subroutines that all ended up doing $command .= 'line from my original script'; system($command).

Bash gets shellshocked

Posted Oct 23, 2014 8:08 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

**shudder**