Bash functions are essentially reusable wrappers around commands. You can use them to define complex command pipelines or to perform some detailed work and echo the result. They accept arguments and ...

Developing bash scripts lets you do a lot of work with little or no effort. This bash command cheat sheet will help you get started. Developing scripts in bash (short for Bourne-Again SHell) can be a ...

If you're writing a Bash script, you will invariably need to pass values to it—aka arguments or positional parameters. Bash's ...

While Linux systems install with thousands of commands, bash also supplies a large number of “built-ins”—commands that are not sitting in the file system as separate files, but are part of bash itself ...

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...

The BASH vulnerability has been dubbed one of the most serious vulnerabilities ever to be discovered and like Heartbleed back in April, has left many system administrators (Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X) ...