When preparing scripts that will run in bash, it’s often critical to be able to set up numeric variables that you can then increment or decrement as the script proceeds.

In this how-to we shall take our first steps into creating Bash scripts with three example projects. The first is the ...

You can see here that the first assignment, the one done via the list incorrectly adds the key as a\ b rather than simply as a b.. Before ending I want to point out another feature that I just ...