Based on our record, Bat seems to be a lot more popular than Oil. While we know about 103 links to Bat, we've tracked only 4 mentions of Oil. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
(author here) Yeah you just repeated what https://oilshell.org/ is You'd want to be able to go $NEWSH my-bash-script.sh and it should just work. $NEWSH my-newsh-script.nsh should also work, obviously.- Source: Hacker News / 5 months agoosh my-bash-script.sh # works, it's the most bash-compatible shell by a mile.
> I know how and love to write in bash. But oh god was it painful to learn This is very well said :) > Sad that there's nothing established to take its place (Perl is read-only, python is not good enough as unix glue, everything else is too obscure). Is there anything notable? Either particularly well designed, or just popular? I think I've only ever heard of Oil (https://oilshell.org). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
In our fork for https://oilshell.org/ , and it made a lot more sense to people. It's funny how "sticky" syntax is -- because two contributors ALSO read * as "pointer" ! So I changed into the MyPy syntax after 5 years, and concluded I should have done that quite awhile ago. --- The funny thing is that while the web page says "Abstract Grammar", I would not call Zephyr ASDL a grammar. Python has a separate... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
Isn't this just another attempt at what Oil is doing? Source: almost 3 years ago
That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that. [1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Good find, thanks! I'll check if I prefer it to moar. As for bat, according to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-bat-on-windows, the Chocolatey package simply installs `less` alongside `bat`. Seems like a good idea, but I haven't tried it. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
I referenced bat because I've found that suggesting cygwin sometimes provokes a negative reaction. The GP also mentioned needing to install GNU tooling as if it were a negative. Bat is fancy pager written in Rust. It's on GitHub: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Try bat (it’s like cat but better) Https://github.com/sharkdp/bat. Source: 5 months ago
For this reason I have a zsh function in my .zshrc with bat (which pages by default, if it's longer than your console height): https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#highlighting---help-messages- Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago# in your .bashrc/.zshrc/*rc.
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