Introducing the Bun Shell

Introducing the Bun Shell Cross-platform shell language & interpreter for shell scripting with JavaScript import { $ } from 'bun'; const response = await fetch("https://example.com"); // Pass JavaScript objects to & from scripts await $`gzip -c ${response}.arrayBuffer()` // cross-platform rm await $`rm -rf /tmp/` // variables are escaped. await $`FOO=${process.argv.at(2)} bun ./foo.js` // read output as text const text = await $`echo hello`.text(); ALT

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