Every time we publish a Linux hack that uses a shell script, someone will chime in about ... that database with SQL-like commands: ls | where {type=="directory"}. You can still treat I/O as ...

Linux already has lots of scripting languages ... as you would for your login shell. You can type regular commands into it. The ls command works as usual, but try using the "dir" command.

One of the most powerful features of Unix and Linux is that using traditional ... But what if the shell understood more data types other than streams? You might argue it would make some things ...