Bash scripting is a powerful tool for automating tasks on Linux and Unix-like systems. While it's well-known for managing file and process operations, arithmetic operations, such as division, play a ...

I've recently written about using bash arrays and bash regular expressions, so here's a more useful example of using them to test IP addresses for validity. To belabor the obvious: IP addresses are 32 ...

We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us think that’s an abomination, and you should only ...

I have a bash script that needs to be able to mount/umount and write to a DVD burner. It all works when it is run as root, but even if I chmod u+s it and leave it owned as root, my other user cannot ...

The first thing most people learn about the command history is that you can go back and forward through your history with the up and down keys. Bash stores history entries between shells by default ...

*** Not sure if this should be here or Linux forum ***<BR><BR>Hey,<BR><BR>I have a situation where I need to automate a soap call that is done using a java class. I have one script that sets all of ...