Bash

Um, if you're really into this stuff, there's also something called Curutils, um, which you can down from- uh, download from, uh, GitHub that will add even more Linux commands.

There's some stuff built into Windows, but you can get the whole, you know, set of the, uh, most Bash commands, uh, now in Windows, which is really cool.

Um, so yeah, we did the terminal one, and then, uh, yeah, I guess that's actually most of it.

So end task, um, for everybody.

That doesn't make any sense at all.

We make it open source to share the technical effort, Why not also sharing the licensing effort? What we started doing is providing a open-source project where you could share ready-to-use license compliance material for commonly used open-source packages like for Bash or for glibc, for the Linux kernel, for BusyBox.

Right now with a strong focus on embedded Linux, but not necessarily, so it's open source it's on github you can if you want provide data you can just open a pull request there's a wiki wiki.osalot.org so if you want to learn how to contribute everything is there so this is yeah when it comes to to the topic of bill of materials

Yeah, I have said for a long time that...

And this allows you to basically figure out how or create a set of tools which should be very composable.

And this is what makes Bash so good.

Because it's really composable and allows you to do a lot.

But usually you want some additional stuff on top of that.

But now the models are so good at this loop and so good at the behavior that for example, read file, you can already throw away.

You can't just give it a bash tool.

And the model has been trained on so many shell sessions and so much code that that it actually knows how to just read files through Bash by using something like set or cat.

And this also gives the model the capability to actually filter more because it can grab on top of it.

... which is kind of, um, the closest, I would say, um, project for what it does.

And otherwise, it's just Bash script, Bash scripts, Python script, and so on.

[laughs]

So, so it's, it's, it's kind of sit between the two

It's amazing to me to see, like, how much of the world is run by nothing more than a pile of Bash scripts.

[laughs] Yeah, exactly.

And it's like, yeah, Ba- Bash is really awesome, um-

No, yeah

Automation of backups across OSes can save producers from the headache of forgetting to copy their work before a power outage or hard drive failure.

Scripts in PowerShell for Windows, Bash on Mac OS or Linux, or even a small Python program using watchdog libraries can monitor the project folder and push incremental copies to an external drive or cloud bucket as soon as changes are detected.

A well-written script should log each sync event with timestamp, file size, and success status.

Turning silent backups into actionable records you can audit later if a version goes missing.

But if you take a look at the article linked in the show notes, you can see examples of many more ways to generate the output.

Yeah, it's like a for loop on ba- in Bash.

Kinda.

Yeah.

It's built in.

Mm-hmm.

Is it, is it actually a Bash built-in?

Uh, not...

What it does on your computer, the scripts it runs, the programs it call.

I mean, one minute it's running PowerShell, next minute it's Bash, next minute it's Git, next minute it's God knows.

W-whatever it needs, whatever it feels it needs to fulfill the task it's been assigned to, to achieve, it will run and download and execute and use whatever it wants.

So that presents real challenges for organizations.

And what that does right out of the box is strip away tools that execute arbitrary code or commands.

So Bash and WebFetch are completely disabled by default.

Exactly.

It puts the agent in a proper sandbox.