and only files matching my_test_here would make it onto do_something. I love the while-read pattern, but it just doesn't feel right that there's no simpler, built-in, idiomatic way to write a function ...

Why would that be a bug? You've written an infinite recursion. You're going to fill up the shell's stack with an pseudo-infinite series of stack frames for the ...

Decimals to Roman numerals—here we hit all the limitations of Bash shell scripting. My last few articles have given me a chance to relive my undergraduate computer science degree and code a Roman ...

Typically we interact with the Linux operating system through what is referred to as a shell interpreter. A common interpreter is the Bourne Again Shell, which people call by the catchy name of bash ...

When spending most of your day around bash shell, it is not uncommon to waste time typing the same commands over and over again. This is pretty close to the definition of insanity. Luckily, bash gives ...

For many users who get started with the command line in Linux, there’s a good chance they’re using Bourne Again Shell, or Bash. Bash is the default shell on Mac OS X, and Windows users can use Bash ...