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Bourne

In doing development for an Enterprise-class IT department, I've found it useful to be able to do as much as possible in simple shell scripts. This is because many times the scripts I write need to be implementd on stripped-down, secured machines. While Perl and Python are both very nice and much more full featured, it is simply amazing how much can be accomplished with the classic tools. At work I use Korn shell for scripting, since it is available on any commercial UNIX I might use. At home, I use Bourne shell. I haven't done enough just yet to hit the limitations of bourne, but bourne has the lovely advantage of being available on anything calling itself UNIX.

I'll be posting some bourne-shell scripts as soon as I clean them up for public distribution.