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Docker in ~100 lines of bash: https://github.com/p8952/bocker

"100 lines of bash" is pretty generous. they might as well have just made it 1 line of bash with the way the code is written

Only the first few lines of the script look dense. Everything else looks normal to me.

Stuff like https://github.com/p8952/bocker/blob/master/bocker#L94 is super dense.

I might write that something like:

    cid="$(
      ps o ppid,pid |
        grep "^$(
          ps o pid,cmd |
            grep -E "^\ *[0-9]+ unshare.*$1" |
            awk '{print $1}'
        )" |
        awk '{print $2}'
    )"

or maybe even cid=$(pgrep -P $(pgrep -f "unshare.*$1")).

I agree with you that their code is fairly dense, yours is overly verbose.

Having said that, looking at their code, I don’t get the impression they’re optimizing for LOC. There is plenty of verbosity and opportunity to remove lines of code if they wanted.

Can confirm. The bocker code (incl. my modest contributions) was targeted towards showing that the Linux toolbox was available and scriptable.

Maybe I've spent too much time writing one-liners in bash but I really prefer the original to yours. I can read the original much faster because it matches the pattern for how I write bash on the command line. Yours looks totally foreign to how bash is normally written. Not saying one is better than the other, just my personal preference.

Dang, didn't expect the downvotes for sharing my bash coding style. :(

That's not fair considering the two longest lines are for logging into dockerhub and parsing input arguments.

Exactly... I mentioned this in an article 4 years ago.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/05/containers_state_of...

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