Check if a file is really a file, whether a string contains anything, and whether you can run a program with these vital patterns.

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 presume to tell you that ...

As any aspiring screenwriter knows, the process of writing a movie script isn’t easy. But if you break it down into its discrete parts—the type of script, a strong premise, solid plot, believable ...

Here are some of the more popular bash options to control how scripts work on Linux and how to list the available options, including seeing which ones are turned on. Bash provides a large number of ...

In this post, we examine a bash script that takes a string of letters, rearranges them in every possible way and checks each permutation to identify those that are English words. In the process, we’ll ...

I am writing a bash script that will accept multiple arguments. My goal is to loop thru all the arguments and display them one by one. If I have a $counter ...

Bring your GitHub repository to the next level of functionality. For the past year since Microsoft has acquired GitHub, I've been hosting my Git repositories on a private server. Although I relished ...

I'm writing a bash script to be used in a automated shutdown sequence. Basically I have a SmartUPS with a network card. In the event of a powerfailure it will send a message to all my servers that ...