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In bash I use a few aliases (which load different libraries for DB and specific data structures) for perl -E

I have simple shell aliases to do SQL queries and pipe the output to shell aliases which transform that to perl data structures (along with some project specific data structures). And so on.

(The bash ctrl-R backward searches rarely interact between shell commands and searches for these one liners.)

Please stop shaking your head. :-)

I agree that the old lisps I used back at Uni was neater than this one liner craziness. I've thought of trying a REPL instead, but with one liners I can also use the bash functionality for processing files and so on.



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