Bashful Scripting

Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust
Summary: I describe a simple interview problem (counting frequencies of unique words), solve it in various languages, and compare performance across them. For each language, I’ve included a simple, idiomatic solution as well as a more optimized approach via profiling.
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https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/#unix-shell

Well-behaved alias commands on Windows
Since its inception I’ve faced a dilemma with w64devkit, my all-in-one Mingw-w64 toolchain and development environment distribution for Windows. A major goal of the project is no installation: unzip anywhere and it’s ready to go as-is.
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https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/02/08/

The Ultimate Programmer’s Guide to Bash Scripting
Bash scripts allow you to automate command-line tasks. For example, watch this video. The video shows how to automate creating a YouTube channel with Bash scripts. After watching it, you may want to create your own YouTube channel.
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https://medium.com/better-programming/the-ultimate-programmers-guide-to-bash-scripting-2d11d4e6e978

Apple Silicon and Shell Scripts
On November 10, Apple unveiled the latest iteration of MacBook Pro, Air, and Mac Mini with its in-home Apple Silicon M1 chip.
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https://medium.com/better-programming/apple-silicon-and-shell-scripts-3207cf1f88c5

Readable Bash Scripts
I really love the feeling of writing a bash pipeline. It’s fun to string commands together, peek at the output, add another couple pipes to massage the data closer to my goal. I even gave a short class on them: bgschiller/shell-challenges.
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https://brianschiller.com/blog/2021/01/07/readable-bash-scripts

3 Uncommon Bash Tricks That You Should Know
One way to type less is to make proper use of your shell (commonly Bash). That’s what this post is about — three Bash tricks that will allow you to type less. All of these tricks are also compatible with zsh.
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https://medium.com/better-programming/3-uncommon-bash-tricks-that-you-should-know-c0fc988065c7

progrium/bashstyle
Bash is the JavaScript of systems programming. Although in some cases it’s better to use a systems language like C or Go, Bash is an ideal systems language for smaller POSIX-oriented or command line tasks. Here’s three quick reasons why:
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https://github.com/progrium/bashstyle

Bash HTTP monitoring dashboard
This is a shell script that creates a webpage with the status of HTTP(s) sites. Parallel checking, thus very fast, only dependencies are curl and bash (version 4 or above). For all of you who want a simple script with a nice webpage to check a few websites.
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https://raymii.org/s/software/Bash_HTTP_Monitoring_Dashboard.html

bash-script-template
I write Bash scripts frequently and realised that I often copied a recent script whenever I started writing a new one. This provided me with a basic scaffold to work on and several useful helper functions I’d otherwise likely end up duplicating.
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https://github.com/ralish/bash-script-template

Minimal safe Bash script template
Bash scripts. Almost anyone needs to write one sooner or later. Almost no one says “yeah, I love writing them”. And that’s why almost everyone is putting low attention while writing them.
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https://betterdev.blog/minimal-safe-bash-script-template/