Many bash scripts use arguments to control the commands that they will run and the information that will be provided to the people running them. This post examines a number of ways that you can ...

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 ...

I run this Bash script every morning via cron on a personal server in my house. The images are copied to the /comics directory on my Web server. I wrote a simple static Web page to display the Web ...

Developing scripts to handle your more complicated tasks can make your efforts on the Linux command line considerably easier and more reliable – at least once the scripts are written and tested.

In the examples directory, you can even see how to embed gum inside things like Python or Ruby. Sure, there are tools like dialog, and for more advanced scripts, you might need that.

Looks much easier. Still, bash isn’t that hard. If you must have bash scripts for some reason, this might be worth a look. As a general-purpose programming language, you should probably stick ...

Hi all! I am new to BASH scripting on Macs. I have started to create simple .sh scripts, but i am looking to advance onto a new skill which involves either: 1. installing .pkg files from my ...

Either Linux or bash prints that the program run by my script seg faulted. Is there any way for me to capture the seg fault when it happens by my script so I can end the script properly?