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Ten *More* Things I Wish I’d Known About bash

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 23 2018, @09:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-many-did-you-already-know? dept.

canopic jug writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday January 23 2018, @03:56PM (1 child)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday January 23 2018, @03:56PM (#626589)

    Xonsh is a Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt.

    Please tell me "BASHwards-looking" isn't a phrase anybody actually uses. If so, these guys should be slapped for such a crime against the English language.

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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @08:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @08:10PM (#626724)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun [wikipedia.org]