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 ...

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 ...

Hashbang #!/usr/bin/env bash #!/usr/bin/bash asumes it's always installed in /bin, which can cause issues. 3 ...

We often read (including in the book Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper) that if we pass variable names as parameters to functions, they will be treated as string literals and cannot be ...

# This script is of functions and how to use them in bash scripting. Functions are reusable blocks of code that perform a specific task. They help in organizing code, improving readability, and ...