[plaguehammer]

I write lots of small shell scripts and aliases (using bash. I have only one script in zsh that does some globbing that zsh is better at out of the box) to do various things, like managing my music collection (on top of what git-annex does), converting and remuxing files, generating files etc.

The other day I wrote a little shell script to make a command-line radio player, which was rewarding.

I have a little shell script I wrote that is now a cron job on my laptop (running Arch GNU/Linux) that backs up my important files to a cloud using borg. That little bit of automation (a few dozen lines really) has been nice and fun to write, and gives me some good peace of mind.

Admittedly, some of shell script syntax (like that for hash maps) get take some time getting used to and is rather arcane, but I find running little scripts to do various day-to-day things around my life and the house rather fun.