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Comment by latexr

> They have inherited the second biggest mistake of shellscripts; Requiring the user to manually check $? after each command.

This isn’t true for Ruby nor shell scripts. In Ruby you have `system` or `Open3`. In shell scripts you:

  if my_command
  then
    on_success
  else
    on_failure
  fi

Shellcheck even warns you of that.

parent latexr 2 years ago

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