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Why are many of the examples so easily solved using other much simpler methods? Could they not come up with some actual reasonable use cases?

>ls | bb -i '(count input)'

ls | wc -l

>bb '(vec (dedupe input))' <<< '[1 1 1 1 2]'

send your input to `uniq` for chrissakes

>ls | bb -i '(filterv #(re-find #"README" %) input)'

just `ls * README * ` (there shouldn't be spaces around the * s but HN formatting doesn't like me)

come on, honestly.

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https://github.com/borkdude/babashka#gallery has some more compelling examples. When I wrote https://github.com/cldwalker/clj-clis/blob/master/clj-github..., I found babashka to be useful because it provided a more readable and thus maintainable way to parse cli options and parse a json response

I guess the examples are so simple so that every bash user can translate them easily.

Who cares? That doesn't do a good job showing why this software is useful. At first glance it makes it look like everything is just more complicated.

Do you speak Clojure?

If not, this isn't for you anyhow.

Genuinely curious, what advantage does Clojure provide in this context that other tools don't handle as well or at all? I agree with the GP post, none of the examples listed show that this tool is superior to what bash and other GNU tools already provide.

In other words, if I don't speak Clojure, why should I learn? This project hasn't convinced me it's worth it yet, but maybe it is?

Author of babashka here. This tool is intended for people who find Clojure easier to work with than Bash because of familiarity or whatever other reason. If you're not one of them, that's fine, just use Bash.

There is no reason for not using more compelling examples.

What other things that exist offend you?

I think you accidentally replied to the wrong comment.

I haven't used this tool, but I imagine using the "-f" option to run a script could be much nicer than writing a bash script. Bash (or any Unix shells) aren't really known as great environments for tasks that don't fit comfortably on a single line.

I think it's for anyone who writes intermediate shell scripts. I don't "speak" Clojure but I'll be giving it a try sometime.

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