====== Shell Scripting ======

Reference pages for shell scripting and text processing: one page per tool or technique, built around recipes rather than tutorials.

===== Text Processing =====

  * [[terminal:scripting:text_processing|Text Processing Recipes]]: the survey page; start here
  * [[terminal:scripting:grep|grep and ripgrep]]: search modes, output shaping, exit codes
  * [[terminal:scripting:sed|sed]]: substitution, addressing, ranges, one-liners
  * [[terminal:scripting:awk|awk]]: fields, arrays, aggregation, mawk vs gawk
  * [[terminal:scripting:jq|jq]]: filters, reshaping, JSON recipes
  * [[terminal:scripting:find_xargs|find and xargs]]: predicates, batching, parallelism
  * [[terminal:scripting:regex|Regular Expressions]]: BRE vs ERE vs PCRE vs Rust: which flavor each tool uses

===== Scripting =====

  * [[terminal:scripting:bash_recipes|Bash Recipes]]: skeletons, args, conditionals, arrays, heredocs
  * [[terminal:scripting:curl|curl]]: requests, auth, timing, debugging
  * [[terminal:scripting:python|Python for Scripting]]: venv, pip, stdlib recipes
  * [[terminal:scripting:other_languages|Other Languages]]: Ruby, Node, Lua, Perl: which to reach for

===== Automation and Desktop =====

  * [[terminal:scripting:automation|Automation]]: cron vs systemd timers, inotify watchers, ''at'', user services
  * [[terminal:scripting:gui_scripting|GUI Scripting]]: notify-send, zenity, yad dialogs from shell scripts
  * [[terminal:scripting:conky|Conky]]: desktop widgets, Lua config, Cairo rings

===== See Also =====

  * [[terminal:tools:start|CLI Tools]]
  * [[terminal:shell:start|Shell Configuration]]
  * [[terminal:start|Return to terminal]]
  * [[start|Return to wiki home]]