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What’s wrong with a js script if author is comfortable with it? Is it a rule that everyone must know linux commands?

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> What’s wrong with a js script

Not much more than is wrong with sending a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to kill a mosquito

> Is it a rule that everyone must know linux commands?

Unix, and yes. Every system around you is built on it or something derived from it (either literally or in design).

Wrong comparison, I’ve taught enough people both UNIX and JS, and there are many of them who consider JS more easier than to grok and use than bash/unix. Not everyone wants to remember all the commands, and most of them use windows.

Also, no not every system around me requires me to learn unix, I can use my phone, microwave or even my gaming laptop(windows) without ever opening CLI. Unless Im at work or am I tinkering with my PI4s I don’t even have to touch CLI or even think about a unix command.

Here the author, I'm not working on windows but macos. I know, the script is not recursive but it's not the goal. The directory architecture of Google takeout > Google photos is one directory per day when there are pictures. In this directory, there are no other directory so the recursive is useless.

The goal was to make a script in quick time and I'm comfortable with nodejs that's why I chose it.

Yes, rules 8 and 14

From Unix handbook of how to make people hate the community? C’mon author was good enough to share a script for us to use, he might be just starting in programming, or may be its for a windows use case, don’t have to be so rude like the original commenter which is what I didn’t like.

I'll refer you to rules 0 and 1

There is nothing wrong with it per se, and no, you don’t have to know Linux commands to get by.

Sure, a Linux one liner might be “easier” to someone who knows Linux… but that doesn’t mean it’s “wrong.”

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