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unixdigest.com
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[AI summary] The article provides comprehensive guidance on various aspects of shell scripting and system administration. It covers best practices for using cron jobs, managing shell configuration files, customizing the shell prompt, and handling command exit statuses effectively. Key points include setting up cron tasks, organizing shell configuration with .d directories, trimming directory paths in prompts, and improving script readability by avoiding the use of $? directly.
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| | venam.net

What's a shell, what does it do, why would we need that? A shell is a program that acts as an intermediary between the user and the operating system, the kernel. It lets you execute commands on a computer. Specifically, on Unix, the shell is a command-line interface, a prompt that waits for commands entered by the user, interpret and exe...
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Zutty is the best X terminal emulator you have never heard of. Itemploys a radically simple, massively parallel rendering algorithm tocompletely offload the ...
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| | mywiki.wooledge.org

[AI summary] A technical guide explaining the advantages of using command substitution syntax $() over legacy backticks in Bash and POSIX shells.
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