Summary

In this chapter, you learned about several miscellaneous tools:

  • eval

  • :

  • type

  • sleep

  • find

  • xargs

  • expr

  • bc

  • remsh/rsh/rcmd/remote

A large part of this chapter discussed the basics of the find command. Peruse the man page on find, and you can see other useful find options for your scripts that were not covered here.

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