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.

On Unix — the progenitor of Linux — there was /bin/sh. It was simple, by comparison to today’s shells, but it allowed you to enter commands and — most importantly — execute lists of commands. In fact, ...

Hi,<br><br>I have a Bourne Shell Script I inherited that writes a a C code and then compiles it. <br><br>I was trying to some changes to it. <br><br>One of the lines in the Bourne Shell code that ...