CHAPTER 11Mixing and Matching
The shell is a powerful language, but it does not do everything. Some other languages are heavily used by shell scripts to perform tasks that the shell itself is not very well suited for; similarly, programs in some other languages use the shell to do some of their heavy lifting. This chapter discusses a few of the issues you may encounter when using other languages from the shell, or the shell from other languages.
This chapter starts with some general information about embedding code in one language within code in another language. Following that are sections on embedding shell code in specific other languages and on embedding code in other languages in shell code. These sections briefly discuss the reasons for ...
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