Unix Design Philosophy
Explore the Unix design philosophy and its core principles such as writing programs that perform a single task well, collaborating through text streams, and leveraging existing utilities. Understand how Bash features like I/O redirection, pipelines, and logical operators embody these ideas to improve automation and performance in scripting.
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We learned the basic Bash built-ins and GNU utilities to operate the file system. Now, we know how to run a program or copy a file using the shell. We can do the same things in a GUI. Both types of interfaces are effective for solving such simple tasks.
Bash provides several features that a GUI doesn’t. These features give us a significant performance gain when solving specific tasks. They can help automate our work and save time.
The following are the Bash features we are discussing:
- I/O redirection.
- Pipelines.
- Logical operators.