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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: 3, Funny) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday January 24 2018, @12:28AM (1 child)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday January 24 2018, @12:28AM (#626876) Journal

    Do you know how to write syntax files for vim? Why not?? Come on, it's only 10 pages of text to read through in the vim help!

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  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:39PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:39PM (#627278) Homepage

    No, because Vim is for losers. I use ed, vi, and emacs where appropriate, and I have read the manuals for each.

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