Advanced shell programming
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In this chapter we examine briefly those aspects of shells that are not required later in this book, and which may be considered as ‘advanced’ in comparison with those topics already covered. The other chapters in the book will enable you to use the shell quite adequately, and the contents of this chapter are by no means necessary for you to be a competent shell programmer. However, even if you do not at this stage make use of the facilities discussed in this chapter, knowledge of their existence is important should you in the future decide to study shell programming in greater detail. Also, if you read shell scripts written by other people, and if you encounter unfamiliar utilities, you will at least recognise the facilities they may use. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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Choosing Python over shell scripting is advisable when maintainability, portability, or integration with external systems is a concern.
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From Modern Approaches to Unix Automation: Shell Scripting, Configuration Management, and Security (2025) · cites this paper as Joy et al., 2002
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Modern Approaches to Unix Automation: Shell Scripting, Configuration Management, and Security
Madamanchi, S. R. (2025) · International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology · doi:10.22214/ijraset.2025.72773 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
- Authors
- Joy, M., Jarvis, S., & Luck, M.
- Venue
- Introducing UNIX and Linux
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 173-193
- OpenAlex
- W2569691790
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Teaching and Learning Programming
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Engineering and Information Technology
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Logic, programming, and type systems
- Keywords
- shell scripting, command-line scripting
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