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.

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 ...

The Moving Parts of I18N in Bash Building on the fundamentals outlined above, let's move onto a real example. This section demonstrate how I18N and Localization are supported and applied in a bash ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?