When I first learned about Linux in the 90’s, I read that it was possible to even write your own commands to use at the command line. Later I learned about bash scripting, and it wasn’t long before I needed to learn how to loop in bash. Looping in bash is one of the fundamental building blocks of bash programming. It isn’t hard to do at all and is worth learning. The main reason to learn looping in bash is to handle doing the same thing over and over again. They’re easy to do even at the command line. Please follow along as we look a couple of basic examples, and how you can expand on them.
http://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2014/10/looping-in-bash/
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday October 12 2014, @02:27PM
I'd say the sh bash choice is just that, a choice. If you are writing to bash and you intend to execute in bash, then use bash. If you only need sh, then go for sh.
What I'd rather work with is a system that uses one, consistently, instead of sh in this file, bash in the next, and csh every so often just to drive you nuts.
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(Score: 2) by fnj on Sunday October 12 2014, @05:01PM
I'm not religiously against anybody scripting in bash as against sh (I limit my own shell scripts to sh, but I'm not a fascist).
But you have to ask yourself, given the power of bash and the accompanying bulk, when you get into heavier duty stuff like array variables, associative arrays, shell math, etc. - why not just make the jump to perl or python and do it right?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 13 2014, @03:06AM
Because feature creep is more seductive than the shiny new language...
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