Chapter 10
Shell Scripts with Node.js
In this chapter, we’ll return to the world of the command line and use Node.js to write three shell scripts of increasing sophistication. This use of JavaScript is currently less common than JavaScript in the browser, but it can be expected to grow as JavaScript (especially via Node and NPM) continues to expand past its original web-programming niche. These programs also serve as a useful foundation for similar programs written in languages more traditionally thought of as “scripting languages”, such as Perl, Python, and Ruby.
Perhaps surprisingly, we’ll discover en route that the DOM manipulation skills developed in Chapter 9 are still useful in shell scripts. Indeed, we’ll extend our capabilities significantly, ...
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