If you're used to a "standard" *NIX shell you may not be familiar with bash's array feature. Although not as powerful as similar constructs in the P languages (Perl, Python, and PHP) and others, they ...

I have a text file contining a list of strings, one string per line. The number of lines in this file is unknown, but not large (less than 50). Space characters in these strings are quoted with '\' (i ...

The bash man page has long had the following bug listed: "It's too big and too slow" (at the very bottom of the man page). If you agree with that, then you probably won't want to read about the "new" ...

Command interpreters and scripting languages like the Bash shell are essential tools of any operating system. Here’s how to use powerful data structures in Bash called associative arrays or hashes. In ...