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I gave a coding agent my old Bash scripts, and it turned them into one tool I actually use

I have a bunch of Bash scripts that help me keep my files organized. They’re useful enough that I keep using them, although running everything through the terminal gets cumbersome. I have to keep ...
Network World

Good coding practices for bash

The best bash scripts not only work, but are written in such a way that they are easy to understand and modify. A lot of this comes from using consistent names for variables and a consistent coding ...
Linux Journal

Writing More Compact Bash Code

In any programming language, idioms may be used that may not seem obvious from reading the manual. Often these usages of the language represent ways to make your code more compact (as in requiring ...
Ars Technica

Still more vulnerabilities in bash? Shellshock becomes whack-a-mole

Remember when we said that a new patch had fixed the problems with the last patch to fix the rated-highly-dangerous “Shellshock” bug in the GNU Bourne Again Shell (bash)? You know, that bug that could ...

Git Bash on Windows cuts off at the 8,187th character of bash -c: Measuring by passing numbers from 3 Claude Code issues directly to bash.exe

There are multiple reports on GitHub Issues stating that long Bash commands are cut off in Claude Code on Windows. Issue ...

Claude Code's Bash grep returns fewer results in allowlist-style .gitignore repositories when the repository root is passed as an absolute path—Measuring ugrep behavior …

The grep command in Claude Code's Bash tool, when used in a repository with an allowlist-style .gitignore, fails to include ...
XDA Developers

I gave a coding agent my old Bash scripts, and it turned them into one tool I actually use

Anurag is an experienced journalist and author who’s been covering tech for the past 5 years, with a focus on Windows, Android, and Apple. He’s written for sites like Android Police, Neowin, Dexerto, ...