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Have you ever dreamed of making a bash script that assembles Intel 8080 machine code? [Chris Smith] did exactly that when he created xa.sh, a cross-assembler written entirely in Bourne shell script.

We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us think that’s an abomination, and you should only ...

I searched a bit but haven't found any actual example of how to daemonize a shell script, just a bunch of lecture about detaching tty, stdin, stdout, stderr, etc. I'm not interested in using Perl or ...