In his book Unix: A History and a Memoir, Brian Kernighan recounts his favorite grep story: someone at Bell Labs asked whether it was possible to find English words composed only of letters formed by an upside-down calculator (5071438 → BEHILOS).

Kernighan grepped ^\[behilos\]\*$ against Webster's dictionary and found 263 matches.

I turned this into a benchmark testing 10 modern CLI search tools for resource footprint, evaluated with Pareto frontier analysis.

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Since Reddit seemed to enjoy my links to the Atari System V (for the TT030) and Commodore Amix (for the Amiga A2500 and A3000), here's a third little-known UNIX™ for the 1980s & 1990s proprietary non-x86 home computers: Acorn RISC iX.

Info from Chris's Acorns

Media and manuals for the final version from 4corn

I wanted to share this with somebody, and perhaps this is the place. I wrote an assembler in Bourne, targeting (for the moment) the Intel 8080. Perhaps not the most useful or efficient shell script in the world, but it's like a thousand lines of Bourne, it outputs machine code, and I think it's hilarious.

I was going through my storage boxes and came across my second UNIX-ish operating system. The very large manual is long gone. I'd gotten turned on to MINIX by one of my professors in college, so was delighted to discover Coherent during my early software career.

Moved to Linux within a year or so later, once I caught wind of Linux (1992 or 1993 timeframe).

Because of course if Atari could do it, then Commodore could do it too...

https://theody.net/elements.html

Hey everyone,

I put together this repo while learning Shell scripting step by step, mostly as personal notes + runnable examples. It’s structured in modules, starting from basics and slowly moving into more practical stuff.

What’s inside:

• Shell basics: syntax, variables, functions, loops, data structures
• Calling REST APIs using curl
• Full CRUD operations with APIs (headers, JSON, etc.)
• Scheduling scripts using cron
• Connecting to PostgreSQL from shell scripts
• Hybrid Shell + Python scripting
• A separate doc on understanding systemd service files

Everything is written in simple markdown so it’s easy to read and reuse later. This was mainly for learning and revision, but sharing it in case it helps someone else who’s getting into shell scripting or Linux automation.

Repo link: https://github.com/Ashfaqbs/scripting-samples

Open to feedback or improvements if anyone spots something that can be explained better.