If you're working with a large amount of data in your Bash scripts, arrays will make your life a lot easier. Some people get ...

I've set up my .bash_profile to colour code the hostname in the command prompt differently depending on which machine I'm on. I have a separate file for specifying the host colours, which is sourced ...

In Bash, a hash is a data structure that can contain many sub-variables, of the same or different kinds, but indexes them with user-defined text strings, or keys, instead of fixed numeric identifiers.

Urhg. Okay, for reasons not worth going into, I am storing partition information for a number of disks in bash arrays, like so:<BR><BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre ...

The bash man page has long had the following bug listed: &quot;It's too big and too slow&quot; (at the very bottom of the man page). If you agree with that, then you probably won't want to read about ...

Creating a sed-based file substitution tool. A few weeks ago, I was digging through my spam folder and found an email message that started out like this: Dear #name# Congratulations on winning the $15 ...