Learning bash, and other languages

Dave Levy
3 min readApr 6, 2024

I made the mistake of claiming to be a bit of a whizz with bash. Someone wrote to me and asked me how I did that. The short answer is that I’ve been using it or its predecessors for a very long time. This article is a bit of a meander, but I end by suggesting that In summary you need to understand how to implement sequence, selection, and iteration and how to use getopts and arrays.

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Dave Levy

Brit, Londoner, economist, Labour, privacy, cybersecurity, traveller, father - mainly writing about UK politics & IT, https://linktr.ee/davelevy