Life with UNIX
by Don Libes · first published 1989
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Predating those two are: UNIX as literature http://theody.net/elements.html Life with UNIX by Don Libes http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Books/Life_with... (from the author's website)
on “The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix (2011)” ↗…with that. I was thinking the other day about how I used to use Tcl Expect and later a standalone expect clone written in C in order to script SSH logins. I recall reading about Tcl Expect it in Libes' Life with UNIX. It's probably still in wide usage, maybe people think it's superior to send-keys. But when I have to do quick and dirty interactive scripting with servers today, I just use tmux. It works. I ran…
on “Tmux has forever changed the way I write code [video]” ↗For example, expect(1) is described in the 1989 Don Libes book "Life with UNIX". Libes is the author of Expect. A title such as "Life with Linux" would probably have made little sense at the time.
on “Expect – Linux tool for automating interactive programs” ↗…debugging. The shirt shows a gangly bird parachuting out of an airplane and reads "Awk bailing out near line 1" The original as referenced here - ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Documentation/Books/Life_with_Unix.pdf - is no longer available as "The Independent UNIX Bookstore" no longer exists.
on “Awk driven IoT” ↗nice stuff! Some of these acronyms are new for me (like rc), others I knew from before (like cat). Reading Life_with_Unix now.
on “What does {some strange Unix command name} stand for?” ↗