It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and echo! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you. BASH is still absolutely foundational to all computing today. Happy Black History Month to an absolute icon!
#bash #bashscript #echo #foss #linux #unix #BlackHistoryMonth #gnu
You can read a short interview with him here where he explains more of his accomplishments 
https://lifehacker.com/im-brian-fox-author-of-the-bash-shell-and-this-is-how-1820510600
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That interview says he's a founder of "Orchid Labs" and that text is linked to this site which is some kind of Indonesian lottery? He's probably not the founder of that, I'm going to guess.
https://www.orchid.com/ seems more likely.
@jessebot why do we need a month for Black history, Black people make history every day.
echo "QmxhY2sgcGVvcGxlIGRvIGFtYXppbmcgdGhpbmdzIGV2ZW4gd2hlbiB3aGl0ZSBwZW9wbGUgcHV0IGV4dHJhIG9ic3RhY2xlcyBpbiB0aGUgd2F5Cg==" | base64 -d
I still prefer bash over zsh that’s the default in macos. Thank you for this hugely powerful tool!
Cool! I met Brian in the early 1980s and used Amacs for programming on the Apple ][! I thought Brian was very cool.
Earlier I had learned and used MINCE (mince is not complete emacs) on an IMSAI 8080 CPM box to write my college thesis ;-)
I never knew, after 34 years of using bash!
But, then, fact is, I never looked up the names and history of almost any open-source contributor.
Most of open-source contributors are unknown and unthanked.
Thanks for making Brian Fox Appreciation Day for me.
It's a really nice, tight, clean, clear piece of code that has saved me hundreds of hours of drudgery.
There was a really good command line hero's podcast on Brian a few years back.
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-3/heroes-in-a-bash-shell
Shells make large-scale IT possible. They’re a necessary component to modern computing. But it might not have turned out that way without a lot of hard work from a developer at the Free Software Foundation named Brian Fox. Now, the Bash shell is shipped with almost every computer in the world.
I love bash.
Without exaggeration, it is one thing that makes me feel I am in command.
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