Great idea! Also to be more inclusive and equitable there should be a parallel group: OBFUS, Old Black Folks with Unix Skills.
Is this satire? Does literally everything have to be segregated by race now? What is not "inclusive" or "equitable" about Old Farts With Unix Skills?
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#24How are you using bash in your work as a data auditor?
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#25I'd love some material targeted towards people like my aunt (spent the 60s and 70s programming then designing and integrating systems for hospitals, then the 80s managing cattle breeding operations with dBASE) and my father-in-law (PhD mechanical engineer who worked for the German equivalent of ANSI until his retirement in the early 2000s, very comfortable with Windows CMD) to deal with the slick, ever-changing "disc…
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#27Sounds like the courses you are berating don't even rise to the level of "button pushers" that we mocked when they ran their Microsoft GUI's to do admin chores (and while we were converting thousands of files in one command, and do daily .. except that we are now converting (growl) webp files that can't be edited (not by GIMP anyway) ) Even so-called "computer savvy" young people just know which buttons to push, and…
>And MacOS. Sheesh. Gotta do this: chsh -s /bin/bash What's wrong with zsh?
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>And MacOS. Sheesh. Gotta do this: chsh -s /bin/bash What's wrong with zsh?
Not OP. But zsh isn't bash, and I am not about relearn my shell-fu.
Also there are plugins like https://github.com/chrissicool/zsh-bash
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#29I'm 40 and I feel here and there. Oldest memories are accessing BBSes over the phone line and still everyone seems to have forgotten that those were a thing. There was a list of local BBSes on the newspaper and it was like 20 or 30 around my area.
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>And MacOS. Sheesh. Gotta do this: chsh -s /bin/bash What's wrong with zsh?
Not OP. But zsh isn't bash, and I am not about relearn my shell-fu.
2. Scripts with #!/bin/bash or #!/bin/sh run as expected — even with bashisms.