bourne shell

Saturday, November 15. 2008

Mitch Frazier explains how to make use of parentheses to execute groups of commands in the background within shell scripts, in his Linux Journal article on subshells.

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Bash: Redirecting Input from Multiple Files

Friday, October 17. 2008

Linux Journal has published another article in its series on Bourne-again shell programming for beginners, this time with a tutorial on redirecting input from multiple files.

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Aliases and functions in shells

Sunday, September 21. 2008

Linux.com is running a piece on using aliases and functions within the bash shell. Fairly simple stuff, but useful to know.

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Tuesday, August 19. 2008

When I hear the phrase "floating point math", the idea of performing it within a shell programming language is probably the furthest from my mind. Nevertheless, the people at Linux Journal have managed to print a two-part article on this very topic:

Part One

Part Two

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Validating an IP address in Bash

Monday, June 30. 2008

Linux Journal's series on shell programming continues with this installment, which gives an example of using arrays and regular expressions.

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Bash arrays

Saturday, June 21. 2008

Linux Journal is running a short article on using bash arrays, along with some example code.

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Bash Regular Expressions

Friday, May 30. 2008

A brief guide to using regular expressions in bash, from Linux Journal.

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Discover tput

Tuesday, April 8. 2008

IBM Developerworks has a great article on the Unix tput command, which is used for controlling the terminal. The article is aimed at the AIX market, but equally applies to Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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