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Bash to ShellJS Transpiler

nfischer.github.io

3 pointsnikolay4 comments

Interesting effort, but my script with line continuation didn't seem to translate correctly... there's a few other things that didn't seem to go right either. I tend to reach for node scripts more often then almost anything if I need something that runs in windows and linux.

I like node, it's got a pretty small initial footprint for install, though cross platform binary modules will be an issue for some time to come.

Well, it works most of the time. For example:

    local param_a="$1"

works, but:

    local -r param_a="$1"

doesn't.

If more people find it interesting and contribute to it, it will get better!

Source code: https://github.com/nfischer/shelljs-transpiler

Couldn’t get the demo to translate when I added more lines of Bash to the input.

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