Title: How to use getopts inside a Bash function Date: 2014-03-18 Slug: how-to-use-getopts-inside-a-bash-function Category: Programming Tags: hackerschool, bash, getopts Status: published As part of ...

You will most often use Bash functions to make your shell life easier; instead of typing out complex command pipelines, create a function and inject arguments. You'd place these in your bashrc file, ...

The calling script must source the entire library; some of the functions depend on one or more of the others. Source the entire library by sourcing autoload.sh. See the comments in autoload.sh for an ...

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 ...

Bash printf function is a powerful built-in command available on all UNIX and Linux systems that allow you to format strings for display in scripts and programs. This function can also be used to ...

There are so many applications available to extract various types of archive files. Remembering all options and parameters of each archive tool would be difficult for you. No worries! Today, I came ...

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 ...

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 ...