Shell Scripting
5 things you didn’t know about shell scripting
Shell scripting doesn't have to be boring. Let's look at a few common things that many don't know about about shell scripts.
Summary
Our security auditing tool Lynis is a toolkit consisting of several shell scripts. Many users of the software actually never realized it was written as a bunch of shells scripts. Now that the secret is out, it is time to learn why we used shell scripting. Here are 5 reasons!
1. Shell scripting is powerful
Yes, people asked us why our tool Lynis was not written in Perl, Python, Ruby, C++ etc.. But honestly, why would we? It is portable, no compilation needed and supports almost every single Unix based system there is. Combine it with the common available tools like awk, grep and sed and you have a great foundation.