Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th May 2008 07:54 UTC, submitted by fairynomo
Tuesday, we linked to an interview with one of the creators of AWK, over at ComputerWorld. From the same series comes an interview with Chat Ramney, maintainer of BASH, the Bourne Again Shell. BASH is the default shell on most UNIX systems, and has been ported to Windows, MS-DOS, the Amiga, and just about everywhere else.
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2005-07-05
It certainly isn't required, but BASH makes some tasks much easier; especially repetitive tasks.
I think it is funny to see Windows users at work spending large amounts of time manually dinking around with large numbers of files, for instance, and being able to accomplish the same task with a simple for loop using BASH.