Shell scripting general. Post your shell scripts and give feedback on other anons'. Discuss command line utilities and useful programs. Shitpost about bash vs. zsh vs. ksh vs. fish. Share your dotfiles. Have fun.
>Resources for learning / improving tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ - Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide: An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting. shellcheck.net/ - Shell script analysis tool. Catches syntax errors and bad code. Available from the command line. explainshell.com/ - Paste a shell command and it will explain the commands and arguments. Reading the manpages is actually often quite helpful.
>Videos to get you in the mood youtu.be/8E8sUNHdzG8 - Luke Smith: Layin' down Pipes like a Unix Chad youtu.be/w_37upFE-qw - Luke Smith: Unix Chad JUST WON'T STOP Piping! youtu.be/QaGhpqRll_k - Luke Smith: Using `sed` and Regular Expressions
>Topics of conversation Good composable programs that you've found. Tips and tricks you've recently discovered. Scripts you've written to improve your workflow.
You know, not everything needs a general. Better than 90% of the rest of this crap board anyway.
Christian Cooper
use jq
Lincoln Gray
This resource is a lot better than TLDP. IMHO TLDP is actually a shit resource.
Charles Ortiz
cd .. dir cd ../.. dir cd ..
Jordan Wood
this but compile from source, stable versions are slow as fuck
Hudson Allen
Luke is a brainlet when it comes to shell scripting
Noah Hughes
GNU Coreutils aren't Unix utilities. They have been written from scratch for the GNU system. It's not only wrong to call these things Unix utilities, it also gets you into legal trouble or fun (depending on the POV): Years ago, the Linux kernel team actually got lawsuits for stealing proprietary Unix code in its system and utilities. Judt call them GNU utilities.
