You've probably written dozens of Bash scripts by now. You may have used grep in a conditional statement or sed to transform small blocks of text inline. What if I told you that's incredibly ...

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 commands. I'm ...

and made the file executable using chmod +x. Of course, if I try use my script like so: script function_name It finds nothing. I've tried all kinds of combinations involving single-quotes and ...

"It works on my machine." I'm sure you've said it or heard it at least once—in code reviews, in chat, or during incident post ...

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 ...