Monday, March 28, 2005

Subtlety and understated power From the Bash Reference Manual, available online for Free, of course: A Unix shell is both a command interpreter and a programming language... While executing commands is essential, most of the power (and complexity) of shells is due to their embedded programming languages. Like any high-level language, the shell provides variables, flow control constructs, quoting, and functions. These are not your forefather's DOS batch files. 3:56:02 PM    comment []

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