Is there any functional-like Unix shell?

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Is there any functional-like unix shell?

I'm (really) newbie to functional programming (in fact only had contact with it using python) but seems to be a good approach for some list-intensive tasks in a shell environment. I'd love to do something like this: $ [ git clone $host/$repo for repo in repo1 repo2 repo3 ] Is there any Unix shell with these kind of feature? Or maybe some feature to allow easy shell access (commands, env/vars, readline, etc...) from within python (the idea is to use python's interactive interpreter as a replacement...

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The standard Bourne-style shells (sh, bash, ksh, etc.) already let you do: for repo in repo1 repo2 repo...

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You should be able to download the Unix Services for Windows, version 3.5, from Microsoft (free). There...

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Unix: What is the best way to get script (typescript) to work with a restricted shell?

I have a scenario where I want to log every activity for a particular  user. I have a script built around the script command which I invoke  from the user's .profile. Now the requirement is that the user should  not be able to delete the subsequent typescript...

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I guess you need to set default shell for your user as rksh. You can do this while adding a user using...

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Is "SCO Unix commands in a nut shell" is a good book to learn unix commands?

I like the way the commands are organized in this book. SCO UNIX in a Nutshell I would like to know is there any other book which is better than this and have latest/common Unix commands.

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Get a different Unix in a Nutshell edition. SCO UNIX is an obsolete dialect of Unix and little used...

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UNIX Shell Scripts Help?

I am stuck on this assignment I have. Was wondering how I am to get started... "... In this assignment you will be working towards a script that can be used to fix this and similar problems by giving a desired extension and then a group of files...

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I think unless you specify what you want in clear manner I can not be of any use to you

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Why did Microsoft never develop the command prompt like the Unix shell?

If you have been using Unix for some time now (mostly as a software developer) and use Windows for some tasks, it is quite likely you would not find the same kind of functionalities on Windows command prompt. Shell scripting gave so much power to Unix...

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There's plenty of analogous commands for PowerShell that match the functionality of Unix: UNIX For DOS...

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UNIX: An operating system that was first developed in early 1970s for PDP-11 machine. UNIX was ported...

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UNIX shell programming anyone?

Ok this will be funny: im at an exam now and i dont know any unix programming. what i require to pass would be to implement the "grep" commands' behaviour in a unix shell script (i got the suggestion to use awk but i dont seem to understand...

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awk -Fs '/your_search_term/' the_file

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Please answer. simple UNIX shell programming.?

please answer these unix shell questions. write a menu driven complete shell script that accepts a file name from the user and performs the following 1. to check whether it is a regular file. 2. display the date on which the file was created. 3.display...

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1) test -f filename 2) ls -u filename 3) wc -l filename 4) tail filename 5) ln filename /home/docs/filename...

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which unix shell is best?

I have been using tcsh for a number of years now ( at least 12), and it seems that most OSes and most users have moved on to something better. Is there a reason for me to change, and if so, what is the best shell out there? ( main os is OSX 10.5, but...

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Pretty much everyone I know in the past ten years has learned bash, and these days bash is the default...

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