Dr. Strangepipes Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying && Function In Shell
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Explores how traditional Unix shell tools (tr, sort, uniq, sed, etc.) embody functional programming ideas and can be composed into reusable, automatically-buffered pipelines for practical problem solving. Argues that many everyday tasks fall in a ‘no-man’s land’ best solved with ad-hoc shell compositions on a modern *nix system before resorting to larger specialized tools, illustrating the approach with classic examples like McIlroy’s word-frequency pipeline.
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