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Research - Bash Tutorial
From the course: Troubleshooting and Debugging Bash
Research
- [Instructor] I think it's important to start with some fundamental research into what tools are available to help you. You can use any text editing program to create a shell script of one type or another. I have many colleagues who simply open VI in a terminal session, for example. But there are plenty of graphical text editors out there that would work great, including several that are platform-specific and others that are available on almost any platform. On the macOS, we have great options like BBEdit, which started as a programmer's tool back in the early days of macOS before macOS X. TextWrangler came about over a decade later, but has developed a loyal following for its ease of use. TextEdit has been replaced by BBEdit now that both programs are owned by the same company. SubEthaEdit is a collaborative programmer's tool that not only features many of the best of class text editing features, but also allows many…
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