Each of these commands took me years to stumble across. They'll take you five minutes to steal.

Howdy,<BR><BR>I am starting to learn bash and Linux in general, with the book 'Beginning Linux Programming'. The chapter on shell programming provides an introduction to bash that's mostly ...

Hey all,<br>I'm working on some scripts to grade assignments for a UNIX class at my college. basicly what I'm trying to do is grep the student's .bash_history to make sure the students used certian ...

Bash has quietly made scripting on Unix systems a lot easier with its own regular expressions. If you're still leaning on grep and sed commands to get your scripts to do what you need from them, maybe ...