Tuesday, February 20, 2007

UNIX tips and tricks for a new user: Some nifty shell tricks

This tutorial includes examples of such situations from small Bourne shell scripts. These situations include base conversion from one string to another (decimal to hex, hex to decimal, decimal to octal, and so on), reading the keyboard while in a piped loop, subshell execution, inline input, executing a command once for each file in a directory, an

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