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: 1) by negrace on Tuesday January 23 2018, @03:32PM (4 children)
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(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Tuesday January 23 2018, @03:50PM
That will get the reply - ten times Hiss, which is what snakes do. Therefore, while we are at the sssss, why not do it properly shhhhh and then more conveniently, bash. Case solved.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @04:57PM
I have been using Octave for most things beyond trivial bash one-liners. It's way too heavy... but then so is Python :)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:01PM
You put a tab in there somewhere and blew up your smarmy post. Or was it a space? I can't tell because I can't see it. Oh well.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:50AM
I thought you were going to say C++ there for a minute.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].