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And kind of sore.

It seems like every new scripting language these days has its own taskrunner. Ruby has rake, Coffescript has cake, for Coco there is coke and probably some more make puns that I don't know about.

Since running tasks in plain bash is not complicated enough, I propose to add the bake command which can be used to run the accompanying Bakefiles. Each Bakefile would consist of a number of recipes with a variety of different ingredients, and so on.

If anyone thinks this is a good idea I'd be happy to build it.

it is too small

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While reading the source is fun and entertaining, having an actual example would be very helpful for us non-bash-$deities.

Please explain how to use your framework, with examples.
Regads.

There are a few major issues that cause it to break on OSX. I have patches for most of them but the last might be impossible...

• Uses #!/bin/bash
  • This prevents usage of a newer bash in the PATH, which is needed since you use new bash features.
• Uses GNU features of sed, readlink, and ... something else (will edit this when I get home)

These are the easy ones to fix, and I will add a patch later today.

The real stinker though is the buffering that occurs within the pipes. In the primary code loop (that actually contains the nc call in server.sh) there are a set of pipes that buffer the data that flow through them. While I assume this is not an issue on linux, it seems that OSX will buffer quite a lot of data in these pipes. I could only get pages to flush when they were quite long. The standard 404 page would not flush until I added several K of text (I did not actually search for the magic number, just poured a bunch of text in).

Intense googling only revealed solutions that worked on Linux. Unless anyone has any ideas, I am not sure if small responses will work on OSX.

Are any bash-specific features actually used in this code? I haven't done a full review yet, but so far all I've seen is the [[ ]] syntax, which can always trivially be replaced by POSIX compatible [ ] syntax