New Post Functions in Bash Functions are modular building blocks for creating powerful and modular scripts, using function makes it easy to isolate a code since it would be in a single building block, which would be isolated from the rest of the script. To […]View Full Post
Returning Values From Functions in (Bash) In the guide function in bash, we dive deep in bash functions and we also pass some information into the functions to carry out a certain operation. In this guide, I’ll show you how to get information back out of […]View Full Post
Using Case Statements in Bash We previously looked at looping in bash, and creating conditional statements using if and else but there are cases where using case statements makes the logic simpler, and clearer. This is the basic layout of a case statement: We can use […]View Full Post
Creating Multiple Menus in Bash Scripts I have been writing a couple of scripts now for different use cases, wouldn’t it be handy to build a menu which will provide a list of command select to choose from? e.g It can contain all sorts of script […]View Full Post
Bash Script For Optimizing ClassicPress & WordPress Images in Bulk Out of frustration of the way different plugin optimizes images (which is super limited, and not effective; it has never been for me)in the WordPress world, I decided to create a script that does it on a server level. This […]View Full Post
Iterating With Loops (Bash) Imagine having to edit 10,000 lines of text within a CSV file, this would be a shit load of work if done manually, which is where looping comes in. When a task or a series of tasks needs to be […]View Full Post
Script to Replace/substitute Multi Occurrences of A String in Files There are a couple of ways you can replace a string in a file, and an example is using the mv command, but what if you want to replace multiple strings at once, then you might consider creating a loop, […]View Full Post
Creating Conditional Statements Using if And Else (Bash) We have recently explored command-line list, we also dived into the test shell builtin command, which can not only be used to check file types but can also be used to compare values. The issue with using those conditions is […]View Full Post
Test Shell Builtin Command The test command can be a shell builtin or file executable (if you specify the full path to the file) that is used for file comparison, it returns a status of 0 (true) or 1 (false) depending on the evaluation of […]View Full Post
Check If Variable Is Not Empty [isset] (Bash) In the getting started with bash guide, we took a sneak peek in customizing script with argument, the issue with the example is that we aren’t checking if the variable is set or not before returning the output, which we […]View Full Post
