Chapter 25. Starting a Project
Starting with this chapter, we will begin to build a program. The purpose of this project is to see how various shell features are used to create programs and, more importantly, create good programs.
The program we will write is a report generator. It will present various statistics about our system and its status, and it will produce this report in HTML format so we can view it with a web browser.
Programs are usually built up in a series of stages, with each stage adding features and capabilities. The first stage of our program will produce a very minimal HTML page that contains no system information. That will come later.
First Stage: Minimal Document
The first thing we need to know is the format of a well-formed ...
Get The Linux Command Line now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
