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Amber the programming language compiled to Bash, 0.5.1 release (docs.amber-lang.com)
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My primary use case for Amber is when I need to write a Bash script but don't remember the silly syntax. My most recent Bash mistake was misusing test -n and test -z. In Amber, I can just use something == "" or len(something) == 0

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[โ€“] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My most recent Bash mistake was misusing test -n and test -z. In Amber, I can just use something == "" or len(something) == 0

test -n can be [ "$something" ] and test -z can be [ "$something" = "" ]

And this applies to posix shell, not just bash.

[โ€“] lens0021@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you for this comment. I'm revisiting this comment because I need to write this...

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