Explore some of the more useful but perhaps more esoteric capabilities of the Bash shell with the blog post Ten More Things I Wish I'd Known About bash. It is a followup to the highly visible post by the same author on Ten Things I Wish I'd Known About bash. Modern shells like Bash, Ksh, and Zsh have over four decades of developent and refinement, making them powerful, flexlble, and fast user interfaces for efficient work — not just excellent scripting languages for automation.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:00AM (3 children)
That's a cool one.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday January 23 2018, @02:46PM (2 children)
#6: These are very handy for knocking up scripts.
I didin't know scripts could get pregnant.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:25PM (1 child)
Sure they can. How do you think they get child processes?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @04:16AM
You fork the forkers, that's how.