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It is crazy how far I have come, it looks like yesterday to me :) I finally mastered the essentials of bash scripting. In week 6 I said I was tired of doing repetitive tasks manually, and I decided t
Week 14 was more about filters in bash scripting, a filter can take either standard input (your keyboard) or the contents of one or more files, the input just gat to come from somewhere, be it a key
Sometimes we need to think like the command line shell in order to understand how things are done in the background, this would make debugging a breeze.
In this guide, you would learn all the variou
Ever wondered if you could quickly do some text processing in a bash script, for example, you can analyze a text or sort the output of a text, and provide it in a more meaningful way.
The good thing
We recently just looked at grep in bash scripting, and another commonly used program in bash scripting is the program called sort.
Sort is a simple filter that is used to sort lines of text from its
Another powerful filter in GNU/Linux is sed (stream editor), which is a program for performing basic editing tasks on the output of another program or on a file.
sed or stream editor can be used to p
We recently discussed filters in bash scripting, in this guide we would look more into the practical usage of using a filter program, and an example of such a program is grep.
grep, in its simplest f
Yh, I am into functions in bash, but I still have more to learn about functions, so, for now, this is what I have:
Functions in Bash
Returning Values From 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 f
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 informatio