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Is such code hard to write in the first place?

Automating the easy 80% sounds useful, but in practice I'm not convinced that's all that helpful. Reading and putting together code you didn't write is hard enough to begin with.



It's not hard, but it's time consuming.


The things I'm wary of are pitfalls that are often only in the command/function docs. Kinda like rsync with how it handles terminating slashes at the end of the path. Which is why I always took a moment to read them.




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