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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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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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 ...
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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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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) ...
