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Ironically, I prefer to use a Mac or a Linux as my personal computer, so hopefully the connotations associated with, `PC` aren't misleading.
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Ironically, I prefer to use a Mac or a Linux as my personal computer, so hopefully the connotations associated with, `PC` aren't misleading.
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# Python Scripts or Bash Scripts?
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Let me start by saying that I enjoy shell scripting. I even love the spirit of shell scripting: a
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hacker's preferred tool for quickly piecing together logic to make his or her life easier. As a
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staunch supporter of building one's own tools, shell-scripting has been a staple of my programming
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career for multiple years. It is, however, this same hackish spirit of POSIX shell scripting that
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has motivated me to seek more robust tools.
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I have decided to switch to Python scripts in lieu of shell scripts to improve the code readability
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and maintainability, and write more powerful cross-platform installation and configuration scripts.
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While I do worry that the switch to Python will eventually dull my knowledge of shell scripts, I
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feel secure for a few reasons. Firstly, Python is widely available on most computers. Secondly, most
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of my day-to-day tasks on the CLI require shell knowledge.
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I am reluctant to leave the piping syntax behind, but I am encouraged by third-party Python
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libraries, such as [plumbum](http://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), that are attempting to
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provide this syntactic convenience to Python. This should not be seen as my farewell to Bash
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scripting. That is too severe. Instead, I see this as a necessary upgrade for my tooling and my
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foray into writing more sophisticated tools for myself and others.
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# GnuPG
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# GnuPG
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1. Download public key from keyserver
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1. Download public key from keyserver
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