It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

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 ...

Script Doctor While bash scripting is often maligned and not without reason, it is very flexible and powerful, as this example shows.

Here are some steps you can take to ensure that your bash scripts work as intended and are easy to update.

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 ...