However, unlike many other languages, bash scripting doesn't use a compiler to run its code but instead relies on a command-line interpreter. The interpreter takes the commands from Bash and runs ...

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If you do much Linux shell scripting, you’ve probably encountered sed — the stream editor — in an example. Maybe you’ve even used it yourself. If all you want to do is substitute text, it ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

In particular, single- and double-quoted strings are treated differently in shell scripts than in C programs. The first parameter is a format string describing how the items being printed will be ...

As with every game, the hardest part is really having a good random number generator that generates truly random values. That's actually hard to affect in a shell script though, so I'm going to ...

I had a simple shell script that I could call directly from within Vim itself to perform those steps. This same approach is still viable on Mac OS X, but I wanted to explore a more Mac-native ...

Here's quick example: $ mv missing ~/missing2 mv: cannot move `missing' to `.../missing2': No such file or directory You see an error; obviously, it didn't work. Ah, but behind the scenes, a numeric ...

Regions were made available way back in PowerShell v.3 in the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), allowing you to group together sets of code or things such as parameters or variables that you ...