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In any programming language, idioms may be used that may not seem obvious from reading the manual. Often these usages of the language represent ways to make your code more compact (as in requiring ...

Knowing how to work with and display exit codes on the Linux command line or in scripts can help make errors more obvious. Exit codes on the Linux command line are numeric values that provide feedback ...

If you've written any amount of bash code, you've likely come across the trap command. Trap allows you to catch signals and execute code when they occur. Signals are asynchronous notifications that ...

What if your command-line tools could think for themselves, analyzing data, automating tedious tasks, and even tailoring solutions to your specific needs? The integration of AI agents like Claude Code ...

It certainly isn’t a new idea to compile a language into an intermediate language. The original C++ compiler outputs C code, for example. Enhanced versions of Fortran were often just conversions of ...