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Next NYC*BUG: Tonight 7:30 local

**NOTE that the meeting has been moved to 730 PM EDT and not the usual
645 PM EDT** (but coming earlier is fine)

The Design of Unix Shell, Stephen R. Bourne
2026-05-13 @ 19:30 EDT (23:30 UTC) - Backroom of Brass Monkey 55 Little
West 12th St

Remote participation: Plans are to stream via NYC*BUG website. Q&A will
be via IRC on libera.chat channel #nycbug - please preface your
questions with '[Q]'.

Some relevant reading for the meeting might be Stephen’s 1978 piece in
The Bell System Technical Journal entitled “UNIX Time-Sharing System:
The UNIX Shell” https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6-1971 (Bell System
Technical Journal, Vol 57, No 6, 1978).

Steve Bourne is internationally known for his work on the UNIX operating
system. During his career he spent 20 years in senior engineering
management positions at computer systems and networking companies. These
included Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment and Silicon
Graphics. Since 2000 he has been Chief Technology Officer at El Dorado
Ventures (now Rally Ventures) in Menlo Park, California.

He is past chair of the ACM Queue board, a magazine that he started in
2003 for software practitioners.

Steve spent nine years at Bell Laboratories as a member of the Seventh
Edition UNIX team. He designed the UNIX Command Language sh or “Bourne
Shell” which is used for scripting in the UNIX programming environment
and he wrote the adb debugger tool. His book “The UNIX System” was
widely read and published in 1983.

Nearest NYC Subway is the 14th Street/Eighth Avenue station L, A, C, E.

Next NYC*BUG: 2026-05-13 @ 18:45 local (22:45 UTC)

• Second Wednesday* The Design of Unix Shell, Stephen R. Bourne

• Backroom of Brass Monkey 55 Little West 12th St

If you have ever written a file that ended in .sh you should thank this man.

For more information, please visit: https://www.nycbug.org/

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Would you like to get more out of bsddialog(3)? BSDCan has a tutorial for that: Introduction to TUI Programming using bsddialog with Benedict Reuschling Thursday 2026-06-18: 13:00 - 16:00 Shell scripts have a bad reputation when it comes to usability and eye candy. Modern users find a blinking cursor on a a black screen leaves a lot to be desired when having to interact with a shell script. In this tutorial, we will create shell scripts that look like a GUI application: with buttons to press, input fields, select boxes and animated progress bars. These so called TUI (text user interfaces) programs still use shell script functionality as the backend, but are lightweight enough to not introduce too much overhead. Users will appreciate the ease of use of your shell scripts and you can rely on them to give you the data and visualizations you to need. At the same time, the TUI application is not difficult to learn and implement into existing scripts. More info: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Introduction-to-TUI.html #unix #tui #shellscript #runbsd #bsdcan

Next NYC*BUG: May 13th

The Design of Unix Shell, with Stephen R. Bourne
2026-05-13 @ 18:45 local (22:45 UTC) - Backroom of Brass Monkey 55 Little West 12th St

Yes, *that Stephen R. Bourne*, in person.

https://www.nycbug.org/

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Believe it or not, we were able to convince Michael W. Lucas @mwl@io.mwl.io to give the April 1st talk for NYC*BUG. His talk is entitled :
"What's Changed Since The Last Time I Came this Way: a talk that was supposed to be about OpenZFS."

Details to follow.

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