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  1. bourne_again_shell 1978

    Bash 1978

    This is a short book which you may read if you work on Open Source systems with bash installed as the default sh

    Some Quotes

    Variable names begin with a letter and consist of letters, digits, and underscores. Shell variables may be given values when a shell procedure is invoked. An argument to a shell procedure of the form name = value causes value to be assigned to name before execution of the procedure begins. The value of name in the invoking shell is not affected. Such names are sometimes called keyword parameters. Keyword parameters may also be exported from a procedure by saying, for example, export user box Modification of such variables within the called procedure does not affect the values in the calling procedure. (It is generally true of a UNIX process that it may not modify the environment of its caller without explicit request on the part of that caller. Files and shared file descriptors are the exceptions to this rule.) A name whose value is intended to remain constant throughout a procedure may be declared readonly.

    Page 13

    Because this is a light book I will hunt for more in depth books on shells

    sources

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Un

    archive.org/details/bstj57-6-1

    #bash #bourne #again #shell #Open #Source #shell #programming #variables

  2. Hype for the Future 66E: Upper Cape

    Introduction The Upper Cape region of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, consists of the four westernmost towns in the county: Mashpee, Falmouth, Sandwich, and Bourne. The Towns of Mashpee and Falmouth have shores on the Nantucket Sound, with Falmouth also containing a southwestern shore on the Vineyard Sound and a western shore on Buzzards Bay. Of the four towns, only Sandwich contains a shoreline on the Cape Cod Bay, though the Town of Bourne contains a shoreline further into Buzzards Bay […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  3. Successful wildlife project welcomes Red Kites back to Lincolnshire – including areas in Spalding, Bourne and Boston

    A bird species which was once on the brink of extinction is now thriving thanks to a ‘phenomenally…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #Animals #Boston #Bourne #environment #HumanInterest #LincsHomepage #Louth #Science #Spalding #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/67914/

  4. @tedpavlic

    It didn't take me long to appreciate Python vs. lower-level languages like C and vs. other languages that can be used in some of the same problem domains, like #Perl or #Bourne shell.

    But yes, there are old-hand Python programmers. I've been using it since 1995 - so 29 years - and it predates me by another 4 years.

    #python #OldHand #decades

  5. @postmodern #zsh is nifty but overcomplicated. Have you tried #fish_shell yet? It doesn't even pretend to be #POSIX compliant, and does a lot of stuff automagically that you have to really work at in other shells.

    It breaks applications that expect to run from inside a #Bourne shell, but I work around that by using zsh as my default shell and then exec-ing fish unless it detects certain conditions that require zsh, which is a very small subset of tools like the #ShellFish #SSH client.

  6. Sidney Powell's 'ghost' election fraud source goes on the record in a wild interview

    One of the most stunning revelations from #Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against #Fox News has been the fact that Trump attorney #Sidney #Powell got her ideas about fraud in the 2020 election from a woman who believes that the #wind sends her messages.

    The Daily Beast's Will Sommer tracked down Powell's #mystery #source and found that she is a Minnesota-based "#cactus #artist" named #Marlene #Bourne, who thinks that she could potentially be a ghost after seemingly surviving an "#internal #decapitation."

    rawstory.com/sidney-powell-265