Finally, when you run an Linux shell script in an Ubuntu terminal window, you need to prepend a dot slash (./) to the file’s name. If you don’t, Ubuntu will look on the operating system’s PATH for ...

A program (binary, or executable) is a file on disk somewhere, in a recognized format. Common formats include ELF on Linux, ...

It turns out that Homebrew has supported Linux for quite a while now under the name "Linuxbrew", but then got folded into the main Homebrew project. That means whether you're on macOS or Linux, you’re ...

Note that if you send a kill -9 to your script, it will not execute the EXIT trap before exiting. The other possible thing that you might like to use the trap command for is to catch Ctrl-C so that ...

Over the years, I've developed the mantra, “If I have to do it more than once, I write a script to do it.” For example, if I need to check the health of my servers each morning, I'd write a bash ...

After running the script, you will see an output folder with a Sintel subfolder and the output file named sintel _ 1080p _ 3M _ ultrafast.mp4. Encoding Multiple Files in a Folder in Bash These last ...

Posted in Hackaday Columns, Linux Hacks, Slider Tagged awk, bash, linux, Linux Fu, perl, python, shell script ← New Contest: Reinvented Retro Synth Gains Plug And Play Analog MUX → ...

Scripts should have names that describe what they do. For example, a good name for the following script might be “square” because it provides the square of whatever number is entered on the ...

For example, using “set -o noglob” will prevent bash from expanding wildcards. Of course, if you need wildcards, you can’t do this — at least not for the part of the script that uses them.