@jessebot@social.smallhack.org
Post #1093865
2025-02-06 06:50 UTC
Replies (24)
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@pgcd@mastodon.online 2025-02-06 16:42
@jessebot TIL. Which goes to show how important Black History Month is.
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@burnoutqueen@todon.nl 2025-02-06 16:43
@jessebot Cool!
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@RoyBrander@urbanists.social 2025-02-06 17:55
@jessebot I never knew, after 34 years of using bash! But, then, fact is, I never looked up the names and history of almost any open-source contributor. Most of open-source contributors are unknown and unthanked. Thanks for making Brian Fox Appreciation Day for me. It's a really nice, tight, clean, clear piece of code that has saved me hundreds of hours of drudgery.
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@tarheel@mstdn.io 2025-02-06 18:39
@jessebot @demi What, whut?? +readline, +emacs maintenance, +some other stuff I have no knowledge of? That's so cool! I love this site!
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@utoxin@techhub.social 2025-02-06 20:17
@jessebot Today I Learned! Thanks for sharing this.
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@union@mu.zaitcev.nu 2025-02-06 20:21
@jessebot Illustrated by a photo of a Caucasian man? Power move.
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@tfiebig@wybt.net 2025-02-06 20:41
@jessebot bash? Didn't he first and foremost do ksh?
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@Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-02-06 20:47
@jessebot TY!
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@Slater450413@infosec.exchange 2025-02-07 07:02
@jessebot There was a really good command line hero's podcast on Brian a few years back. https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-3/heroes-in-a-bash-shell
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@gilesgoat@toot.wales 2025-02-07 14:42
@jessebot And I keep thinking "reminds me a bit of that actor in Ghost Dog / seen him already somewhere" 🙂
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@helianthropy@tech.lgbt 2025-02-07 17:53
@jessebot Bash is my preferred shell. ❤️
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@Meg66@mastodon.social 2025-02-07 21:06
@jessebot Thank You
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@freyja_wildes@social.lithio.fr 2025-02-09 12:32
@jessebot Just reading his Wikipedia page Did a tone a work, damn
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@bakuninboys@aus.social 2025-02-10 04:02
@jessebot also for anyone curious: he is not a vampire, that photo is from 2008.
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@jspath55@chaos.social 2025-02-28 17:55
@jessebot Thank you Mr. Fox. When I was in #BigCorporate I was the only one with /usr/bin/bash as my logon shell; everyone else was on stock /usr/bin/csh.
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@dianea@lgbtqia.space 2026-02-02 15:32
@jessebot His Wikipedia page is good reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(programmer)
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@dgodon@mastodon.online 2025-02-06 15:33
@jessebot he looks too young to have created bash!
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@jalager@mastodon.nu 2025-02-06 14:06
@jessebot Wonderful. Avid bash user here. Let other people script in python or go, bash is where it's at. 😃
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@mike@sauropods.win 2025-02-06 14:05
@jessebot `echo`?!
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@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchange 2025-02-06 13:23
@jessebot Love this. bash all the way. I tell my Mac to pound sand when it tries to change my shell to zsh.
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@stepheneb@ruby.social 2025-02-06 13:12
@jessebot Cool! I met Brian in the early 1980s and used Amacs for programming on the Apple ][! I thought Brian was very cool. Earlier I had learned and used MINCE (mince is not complete emacs) on an IMSAI 8080 CPM box to write my college thesis ;-)
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@gilesgoat@toot.wales 2025-02-06 13:00
@jessebot WOW, if I would have been not for this post, I probably would have never known the face of "who actually made bash" 😮 🙂 Sometime you wonder "who made this ?" .. and so many faces you'll never see ...
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@rooster1556@mastodon.online 2025-02-06 12:18
@jessebot I still prefer bash over zsh that’s the default in macos. Thank you for this hugely powerful tool!
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@aho@mastodon.social 2025-02-06 10:40
@jessebot why do we need a month for Black history, Black people make history every day. echo "QmxhY2sgcGVvcGxlIGRvIGFtYXppbmcgdGhpbmdzIGV2ZW4gd2hlbiB3aGl0ZSBwZW9wbGUgcHV0IGV4dHJhIG9ic3RhY2xlcyBpbiB0aGUgd2F5Cg==" | base64 -d