You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — … ...

With this book, Linux expert Steve Parker shares a collection of shell scripting recipes that can be used as is or easily modified for a variety of environments or situations.

As an example, here’s [calebccf] with an emulated 6502 system in a busybox ash shell script. What’s in the emulator? A simple 6502 system with RAM, ROM, and an emulated serial port on STDIO.

I had a simple shell script that I could call directly from within Vim itself to perform those steps. This same approach is still viable on Mac OS X, but I wanted to explore a more Mac-native ...