You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip o ...

Although bash scripts are regularly maligned ... But having some tricks to embed multiple files inside a file can make creating and distributing scripts easier. This is somewhat similar to ...

Bash allows you to work with custom file descriptors beyond the standard 0 (stdin), 1 (stdout), and 2 (stderr). You can also separate stdout and stderr cleanly: ...