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

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 23 2018, @09:52AM   
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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• Re:Which swearword... (Score: 4, Insightful) by turgid on Tuesday January 23 2018, @07:40PM

  by turgid (4318) on Tuesday January 23 2018, @07:40PM (#626713) Journal

  How often did I come across scripts that broke with spaces in filenames?

  Spaces in file names are an abomination. Anyone who puts spaces in file names is a filthy pervert. The Good Lord gave us the underscore.

  And it gets especially bad, if the target has to be classical "sh", without "ba", "z", "k" or "da" in front of it.

  It helps to know what language you're writing in when you try to write a program.

  I, for one, much prefer Python as digital duck tape.

  Youth, as the great man said, is wasted on the young. Quack.

  --
  I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].

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