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The power of the shell |
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Thursday Dec 19 10:06:30 2019 |
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The power of the shell precisely lies in the fact that it is truly |
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powerful. This might sound plain silly and perhaps apologetic in a |
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way, but to tell you the truth the more I use the shell programming |
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language the more I realize how great it is. |
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I am just a hobbyist and I must admit that the shell is very limited |
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when it comes to do certain things, but on the other hand if you know |
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those limitations and you can adapt to them, and even live with them |
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you may have a great coding experience. |
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I have written about the power of the shell on other occasions, but |
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let me tell you where this is all coming from once again: |
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Lately I have been building a website for my family and friends. I |
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didn't want to install a CMS so I decided to use plain html and a |
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little bit of php just to make it a bit more dynamic. |
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Well, once the site is up and running, the hardest part is as usual |
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adding content and keeping the site up to date. So to make my life a |
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bit easier I wrote several scripts to automatize the process of |
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updating the web page. |
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While writing the code I was constantly asking myself, how will the |
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shell interpret my commands? how can I be sure the result will be what |
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I am expecting? |
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And the conclusion as always is try and see, experiment, play, read, |
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learn, do research and have the time of your life with it. |
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The power of the shell is there to help you write powerful scripts. |
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