Teach an old shell new tricks with BashDiff

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 27, 2008 7:09 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Ben Martin
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BashDiff is a patch for the bash shell that can do an amazing number of things. It extends existing bash features, brings a few of awk's tricks into the shell itself, exposes some common C functions to bash shell programming, adds an exception mechanism, provides features of functional programming such as list comprehension and the map function, lets you talk with GTK+2 and databases, and even adds a Web server right into the standard bash shell.

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