Suppose you are working on a complex bash script to automate a series of tasks on your Linux system. You notice that as it grows, there are certain parts of the script where the same code blocks are ...

Fish is a terrific shell. I first explored it over 10 years ago. One of the main blockers that prevented me from fully switching, though, was collaboration: If a professional or collaborative ...

and only files matching my_test_here would make it onto do_something. I love the while-read pattern, but it just doesn't feel right that there's no simpler, built-in, idiomatic way to write a function ...

A flexible Bash function to normalize input strings into arrays. It splits strings by spaces, commas, pipes, or custom delimiters and returns a clean array.

Bash functions, unlike functions in most programming languages do not allow you to return a value to the caller. When a bash function ends its return value is its status: zero for success, non-zero ...

Decimals to Roman numerals—here we hit all the limitations of Bash shell scripting. My last few articles have given me a chance to relive my undergraduate computer science degree and code a Roman ...

Complete shell script for password generator. The script is titled "passgen.sh". This shell script is intended to generate new passwords for new or existing accounts on a local, Linux system. The ...

If you aren’t a Linux user and you watch someone who knows what they are doing use Bash — the popular command line interpreter — you might get the impression they type much faster than they actually ...