Simon Willison’s Weblog

Using Bash’s History Effectively. The HISTIGNORE environment variable is particularly useful, allowing you to suppress certain commands by specifying a pattern. This article has a tip for causing a command to be omitted from the history if you prefix it with a space. 25th February 2010, 12:21 pm

shunit2 (via) xUnit style testing for shell scripts. 27th September 2009, 7:34 pm

BashReduce. Map/Reduce in Bash is no longer a joke project (if it ever was)—Richard Crowley is extending it and using it for analysis at OpenDNS. 28th June 2009, 3:03 pm

resty. 58 lines of bash provides a better command-line interface to RESTful APIs, using curl under the hood. This should save me from running “man curl” several times a week. 18th May 2009, 1:07 pm