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hpr0562 :: Introduction to bash scripting

Introduction to bash scripting, with quick explanations of many adjacent concepts

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Hosted by Ken Fallon on Wednesday, 2010-08-11 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.
bash, bash basics, bash scripting. 1.
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Duration: 00:20:32

Bash Scripting.

This is an open series in which Hacker Public Radio Listeners can share their Bash scripting knowledge and experience with the community. General programming topics and Bash commands are explored along with some tutorials for the complete novice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface

A list of "Hello World" programs in many different computer languages: 
https://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm 

For Windows:
Editor: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Bash (and more): https://x.cygwin.com/ 
(run setup, and selecting the 'xinit' package from the 'X11' category.)

$ echo '#!/bin/bash' > hello.bash
$ echo "echo hello world" >> hello.bash

$ cat hello.bash 
#!/bin/bash
echo hello world

$ chmod +x hello.bash

$ ./hello.bash
hello world

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Comment #1 posted on 2010-08-13 22:22:08 by rowinggolfer

great ep ken

Superb episode. good topic, length, and content. I look forward to the rest of this series.

BTW - looks like the spammers have beaten the capchtas :(

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