First steps with Scala, say goodbye to bash scripts…

I still prefer a simple shell script for these use cases. Here's a snippet for the translated file size calculation:<p><pre><code> translated_files=$(grep "todavida no ha sido traducida" *) total_size=$(du --summarize . | cut -f 1) translated_file_size=$(du --summarize --total $(echo translated_files) | tail -n 1 | cut -f 1) echo "translated size: ${translated_file_size}KB/${total_size}KB $(($translated_file_size/$total_size))%"</code></pre>

A nice article, but its worth mentioning that scala for bash script usage is a non-starter for most stuff you might use bash for because JVM startup overhead, even for the client VM, is so substantial

I don't get how the bash scripts are not used. It's still used at<p><pre><code> #!/bin/sh exec scala "$0" "$@"</code></pre>

Thanks to everybody's feedback on this one... You encouraged me to write another article, mainly because I felt a little guilty for bashing (pun intented) bash and python ;-) Hope you like it <a href="http://playlatam.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/first-steps-with-scala-revisited-bash-and-python-strikes-back/" rel="nofollow">http://playlatam.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/first-steps-with-s...</a>

nice article, but they could have removed the last part of the title. Its a nice way to learn scala, but a poor way to say goodbye to bash.

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