On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:
2010-12-13, 12:04(+00), Marc Herbert:
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True, bash does not come with a vast library of ready-to-use functions.
Neither is there any such "reference" library available externally. Or
is there?
Yes, they're called "commands" or "programs" or
Le 13/12/2010 19:48, Stephane CHAZELAS a écrit :
> Yes, they're called "commands" or "programs" or "software".
>
> People tend to forget that before all a shell is a command line
> interpreter.
>
> If you're finding yourself writing complex shell functions that
> don't make use of external comman