Chapter 2: Making Your Programs Easy to Script
Linux and other Unix systems have strong scripting support. The whole idea of Unix, from the very beginning, was to make a system easy to develop on. One of these features is to take the output of one program and make it the input of another program—hence building new tools with existing programs. We should always keep this in mind when creating programs for Linux. The Unix philosophy is to make small programs that do one thing only—and do it well. By having many small programs that do only one thing, we can freely choose how to combine them. And by combining small programs, we can write shell scripts—a common task in Unix and Linux.
This chapter will teach us how to make programs that are easy ...
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