Have you ever dreamed of making a bash script that assembles Intel 8080 machine code? [Chris Smith] did exactly that when he created xa.sh, a cross-assembler written entirely in Bourne shell script.

Bulky, assorted files filling up my Downloads folder are no more.

I searched a bit but haven't found any actual example of how to daemonize a shell script, just a bunch of lecture about detaching tty, stdin, stdout, stderr, etc. I'm not interested in using Perl or ...