Extending and Expanding UNIX with Your Own Programs
The set of commands that UNIX comprises offers a remarkable amount of flexibility, but even with fancy shell script programming, you'll doubtless come across situations where a program is your only solution. There are two popular UNIX solutions: the Perl scripting language (covered in the next hour) and the C programming language, as explored in this hour.
Task 21.1: fget, a Smarter FTP Client
 | When you learned about the FTP program earlier in this book, you probably thought to yourself, Sheesh, that's pretty ugly and hard to use. Well, you're not alone, but if you're stuck on the command line, ... |
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