Any Bash features you'd like to see?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, William Park wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:58:34PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 May 2005, William Park wrote:
>>
>>> I've just added bunch of string operations into Bash shell.
>>>   http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/
>>>
>>> While I'm at it, is there any features that you'd like to see in Bash
>>> shell?
>>
>>    X window commands, e.g.:
>>
>> window=$(openwindow -geometry 600x300+10+10)
>> drawline $window 10 10 30 100
>> text $window "Hello, world."
>> closewindow $window
>>
>>   etc.......
>
> I've been tossing that idea around.  So far, it's like builtin variation
> of 'dialog'.  I certainly put hooks into C libraries.  We'll see...
>
> By the way, folks, there is a new book on shell scripting called
>    "Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach"
> from Apress.

     Really? Is it any good?  ;)

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