Bash is the shell from the GNU project. It is the standard shell on many Linux distributions and often available on other *NIXes.
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Is bash “finished”? [closed]
Should bash be expected to change in ways that break non-trivial amounts of existing scripts at some point in the (near/<5y) future? How much change has it gone trough in the last ten years ...
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Need some advice and feedback on my code's design
I am looking for feedback on the design of my program.
I have a shell script call function.sh that defines a lot of helper functions. My intent is to use those bash functions defined in functions.sh ...
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Is it possible to use python as a shell replacement? [duplicate]
Recently I was looking at python's shutil and subprocess etc... And I started wondering: wouldn't it be ok to use python instead of e.g. bash?
What am I missing?
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How do global cancel/exit commands work in bash?
As I have done multiple times before, I've written bash scripts, and just general commands that go nowhere. They just blink the little command line cursor at me for infinity until I control+C the ...
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Effective handling of variables in non-object oriented programming
What is the best method to use and share variables between functions in non object-oriented program languages?
Let's say that I use 10 parameters from DB, ID and 9 other values linked to it. I need ...
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Should I use a heredoc or an external template file in my bash script?
I realise that this question may be down to personal preference but I'm pretty new to bash/shell scripting so thought it'd be worth some research to see if there's some sort of standard/best practise ...
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User Configuration of a Shell Script. Best practices?
I am writing a shell script with a few variables that should be configured by the user. There will be an installer for downloading and configuring the script, possibly by asking a series of question. ...
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Do accompanying tools/scripts also need to be licensed to put my bash script under GPLv3?
This is some sort of follow up to an older question of me.
So I put the GPLv3 license into the project which contains my script and also added the copyright notice and copying permission statement to ...
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Are these steps enough to put my bash script under GPL 3?
I have written a bash script I would like to put under GPL v3. I've read the GNU documentation
on How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs and How to use GNU licenses for your own software. ...
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Are “backwards” terminators for if and case unique to shell scripting?
In bash at least, if and case blocks are closed like this:
if some-expr
then
echo "hello world"
fi
case $some-var in
[1-5])
do-a-thing
;;
*)
do-another-thing
esac
as opposed to the ...
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Improving grepping over a huge file performance
I have FILE_A which has over 300K lines and FILE_B which has over 30M lines. I created a bash script that greps each line in FILE_A over in FILE_B and writes the result of the grep to a new file.
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PHP as a scripting language
I have reasonable knowledge of PHP, Perl, and Bash. I use Perl for most text processing on my system (find, replace, filter output, etc). I use PHP for web development, allowing a user to view and ...
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I need to know the reasons why learning Linux Shell Scripting (BASH) benefits me as a PHP developer
I have been developing web sites/applications using the LAMP stack for almost 5 years.
Currently I am interested to dig more into Linux OS, specifically BASH but from a web developer perspective, not ...
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Trailing forward slash in directory names - good programming practice?
I want to ask the user of my bash script to pass a directory path as argument. Which one of the following is a good programming practice - to require that the user enter a trailing / (forward slash) ...
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Why such popularity with Python? [closed]
Other than being annoyed at whitespace as syntax, I'm not a hater, I just don't get the fascination with Python.
I appreciate the poetry of Perl, and have programmed beautiful web services in bash ...
