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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:12AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:12AM (#627069)

    2GBs my word. My 7MHz XT had 21 megs I had reams of games and business applications and three different OS / shell variants and I don't think my hdd utilisation ever reached 25%

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:14AM (#627070)

    Also, none of that sounds so bad. Windows 3.1 is a helluva lot better than windows 95 and you gave me perl and an internet connection so I can make that machine do anything that is worth doing. Although on those specs i'd probably just stick with DOS.