Shellscript

I bang the keyboard – but you understand

The work is piling at a higher rate

Instead of doing this hard work by hand

I really should just automate

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It’s a shellscript, just a script of shell –

But I don’t know just how I could tell

It’s a victim of its own success

As I’m maintaining this unholy mess

Data’s growing, and the files are flat

Performance sucking, something must be done

It must be accessed by this thing and that

Just add a DB, it is fun!

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Now people saying that it’s hard to use

And all this typing is a pain

Without menus, buttons, we will lose

I’ll add a GUI, don’t complain

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Now we’re selling this, we have no shame

But the customers don’t stop to call

I keep on saying that it’s really lame

But all good programs started small!

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