Shell tips and tricks

[Steven W. Orr]

On Wednesday, Oct 31st 2007 at 22:47 -0000, quoth VirginSnow at vfemail.net:

=>> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:32:50 -0400
=>> From: "Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name>
=>
=>> On 10/31/07, VirginSnow at vfemail.net <VirginSnow at vfemail.net> wrote:
=>> 
=>> > (7) Shell options?  What are those?
=>> 
=>> 
=>> 
=>> There are 2.  getopt and getopts.  Here's some snippets
=>
=>Actually, I was referring to the myriad arguments to bash's "shopt"
=>builtin... execfail, shift_verbose, nocaseglob, globbledegook, etc.
=>OK, so I made that last one up.

So do I hear a vote for an initial topic? 

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