To be honest, you approached this problem pretty badly.

michaelmrose · on Feb 6, 2021

This might be a useful comment if you had spent the time to offer thoughts on how it could be better.

As it is this comment serves only to gratify your ego whereas advice might help readers. It's worse than adding nothing at all.

pdimitar · on Feb 6, 2021

It was supposed to be a one-off task and I was confident at the time that I can script it quickly.

I still scripted it but it took at least half a day.

I'll still behind the idea that one has to be able to do one-off tasks without starting a dedicated programming project. It's what scripting languages are meant for.

But I did misjudge the speed at which I'll be able to finish the task, that much is true. Ironically I knew exactly what to do from the start but several small and annoying quirks of the shell scripting languages lost me quite a bit of time.

killingtime74 · on Feb 6, 2021

Your comment is approached pretty badly.