Learning this one feature means covering a huge chunk of Bash's capabilities.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

You can create a release to package software, along with release notes and links to binary files, for other people to use. Learn more about releases in our docs.