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.
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
Ok. I started writing this when I was standing in line to pick up an iPhone 4 (that’s right, this post has been that long in the making!), so this post was
Most of us working on unix would know about the shell wildcards (* and ?). These can be very useful while working with files. For example, *.db would match any file ending with .db in