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 hacker who types the same commands over and over is wasting time. Scripting is how you automate that — you write the commands once in a file, and then you just run the file. This module covers how ...

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 ...

A shell script is a file with a set of shell commands , for Automation of Repetetive tasks . (extention with .sh ) What is a variable ? a variable is a charecter string to which we assign a value. The ...