If you use bash you already know what Parameter Expansion is, although you may have used it without knowing its name. Anytime you use a dollar sign followed by a ...

The bash man page is close to 40K words. It's not quite War and Peace, but it could hold its own in a rack of cheap novels. Given the size of bash's documentation, missing a useful feature is easy to ...

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Have you ever stared at a large directory of file names and dreaded the idea of renaming them all? Or perhaps your scripts are littered with conditional statements checking to see if an environment ...

Does anyone have an example of a script that takes parameters (so the user can specify the parameters in any order of their choosing)?<BR><BR>E.g.:<BR><BR>myscript -u username -p password -c ...