“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”— Harold “Hal” Abelson This highfalutin aphorism applies from the most cerebral application programming language of your choice, right down to the humble (or not-so-humble) bash script. Love or hate them, bash scripts are the primary method of launching processes on Linux …

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