Check if a file is really a file, whether a string contains anything, and whether you can run a program with these vital patterns.

It is no secret that we often use and abuse bash to write things that ought to be in a different language. But bash does have its attractions. In the modern world, it is practically everywhere. It ...

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Have you ever dreamed of making a bash script that assembles Intel 8080 machine code? [Chris Smith] did exactly that when he created xa.sh, a cross-assembler written entirely in Bourne shell script.

Imagine you have a directory filled with thousands of files, and you have been asked to process these files one by one. Sounds quite tedious, right? Well not, if you are using For loops in Bash script ...

Bash Scripts are essential for easing the lives of sys admins, developers, and Linux users in general. And an integral part of bash scripting is conditional statements, i.e. if, else if, and if else ...

While working with two Bash scripts, I attempted to compare their headers in order to later update the newer file with the standardized format I am using. However, while the model was analyzing the ...

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