[Chicago-talk] Robust Shell Scripting using Bash 3.x

[Dave Hoover]

Thank you Michael Potter for teaching us about the nooks and crannies
of bash gotchas and best practices.  For anyone who is interested in
downloading the slides, visit http://tinyurl.com/34nhrd

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Dave Hoover <dave at obtiva.com> wrote:
> Michael Potter has stepped up to talk about Bash at the meeting at IIT
>  in Wheaton on Tuesday night.  We'll likely be hearing more from Fred
>  Polgardy about JavaScript in April.
>
>  You can find directions at http://chicago.pm.org/meetings/#wheaton
>
>
>
>
>   Robust Shell Scripting using Bash 3.x
>
>   Tuesday March 11th 2008
>   Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103
>
>   ----------------
>   bash (and scripting languages in general) act as the glue that hold other
>   system components together.  This presentation will focus on the underutilized
>   features of bash that are critical to building production quality scripts.
>   Demos will show you how and why to turn these features on.
>
>   Much of the bash syntax is redundant; I will also explain which syntax
>   to use and which syntax to avoid.
>
>   Knowledge of any of the common UNIX scripting languages will be sufficient
>   to attend this meeting.
>   ----------------
>
>   Michael has been working IT industry since 1989 when he
>   switched from programming automotive embedded systems.
>
>   Since that time he has been involved in projects related
>   to moving mainframe applications to UNIX and Linux using
>   opensource technologies.  Projects have included a CICS
>   emulater written in C, a source code control and configuration
>   system built on top of cvs, a DFSORT like set of utilities
>   that work similar to sed/grep/sort tools on unix, and
>   a JCL to bash conversion scheme.
>
>   You can reach Michael at michael at potter.name
>
>  --
>  Dave Hoover
>  //obtiva:  Agility applied. Software delivered.