Passing arguments, writing a help menu, and debugging can be burdensome. However, the getopts command, Heredoc, and the "set ...

Here are steps you can take to ensure that your bash scripts work as intended and are easy to update. Committing routine and even rarely required tasks to scripts is almost always a big win because ...

Once a script is prepared and tested, you can get a significant task completed simply by typing the script's name followed by any required arguments. Developing scripts to handle your more complicated ...

If you are a traditional programmer, using bash for scripting may seem limiting sometimes, but for certain tasks, bash can be very productive. It turns out, some of the limits of bash are really ...

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I've recently written about using bash arrays and bash regular expressions, so here's a more useful example of using them to test IP addresses for validity. To belabor the obvious: IP addresses are 32 ...

Beginner, expert, or hobbyist, this is the Linux guide you need! Install and walk through the basics: working in the terminal ...

So, once again acknowledging my lack of scripting talent. I've got bits and pieces of this worked out, but missing some of the glue to tie it all together. Basically what I'm working on is a script ...

Bash is neat for quick and dirty stuff but PowerShell is - really powerful. It's a true object oriented scripting language that also supports compiling. In an ideal world though, I'd just want to use ...