Computer Science Canada Bash question |
| Author: | wtd [ Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:07 pm ] |
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I'm curious as to what use people make of command shells. |
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| Author: | md [ Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:26 pm ] |
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I use bash as my shell, and I also use it to do some simple scripting whenever I need to do something simple on the command line that requires way too much work to type out. |
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| Author: | rdrake [ Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:31 pm ] |
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I typically prefer using bash... though FreeBSD uses csh (I do believe) as its default shell. Good old sh works well too. If it counts, I also use the winders PowerShell when I'm left *nixless. |
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| Author: | Null [ Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:46 pm ] |
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I just find things are easier in Linux with the shell. I rarely do any Bash scripting. |
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| Author: | Justin_ [ Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:51 am ] | ||
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Since I've only removed windows from my computer last month I haven't done anything majorly fancy with bash yet. The fanciest is probably this:
If you can figure out what it does then you can use it to  |
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| Author: | timmytheturtle [ Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:30 am ] |
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I use bash quite a bit, I do some scripting, I've written a few simple scripts do automate proccesses like backing up, or pinging a network to find a machine. |
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| Author: | OneOffDriveByPoster [ Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:38 pm ] | ||||
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Justin_ wrote: Since I've only removed windows from my computer last month I haven't done anything majorly fancy with bash yet. The fanciest is probably this:
If you can figure out what it does then you can use it to :) Don't know if it actually works the same, but:
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| Author: | rizzix [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:14 pm ] |
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I use zsh. It's a perfect interactive shell and it has some cool features that use useful in non-interactive scripting.
zsh is pretty good for interactive scripting as well. |
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