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UNIX Command Line Tools

The Power of the Shell

On UNIX operating systems, the command line interface is tremendously powerful and useful. It is great for building processes that “do stuff” with text. Since most of the workflow data structures we want to create are based around creating or manipulating a textual file, this makes UNIX an excellent choice for building processors for XML and other text files.

image The UNIX style of scripting is available on Windows if you install the Microsoft UNIX services add-on.

UNIX systems include desktop systems from Apple up to large mid-range computers from IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems. There are servers to ...

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