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Scripts

Page created: 2023-06-21

I loooooove writing shell scripts to automate tasks.

Pretty much everything is Bash these days. It’s terrible, of course, but it’s always there and it has everything you need to work with files, manipulate strings, and otherwise interact with the standard set of Unix tools.

See:

The amazing flexibility of just writing to stdout
ruby
cgi (the "scripts" of the web, especially local cgi