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Working with Bash and Zsh

  • Difficulty level: easy
  • Time need to lean: 10 minutes or less
  • Key points
    • SoS works with Bash through either the bash kernel or the Calysto_bash kernel.
    • SoS works with Zsh through the zsh-jupyter-kernel.
    • The kernel interprets content of the cell as bash or zsh scripts
    • Limited data exchange is supported because bash or zsh does not have a rich type system as Python

Bash

The Bash kernel is not rich in data types and everything is essentially a string. You can pass primitive datatypes from SoS to Bash but expect to get string representation of variables out of it.

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Hello World
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Hello Bash
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Hello Bash
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Hello from Bash
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Out[6]:
'Hello from Bash'

Zsh

The usage of the zsh kernel is identical to bash.

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Hello World
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Hello Zsh
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Hello Zsh
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Hello from Zsh
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'Hello from Zsh'