Dealing with databases from Shell scripts has always been clunky. Using custom shell built-ins we can develop an idiomatic, safe , and performant way of accessing the db from the Shell.
In this series of posts, I'll make a case that Shell scripts are not used enough in mainstream data processing pipelines, what are the reasons behind that, and how we should develop a
One of the key usage of shell scripts is to monitor systems and jobs and send out notification alerts to email addresses. With the advent of smartphones and always-connected devices, these emails are
Shell scripts are very powerful in what you can make them do and they can be written in a very short amount of time, especially when it comes to processing text files. Most