If you are a traditional programmer, using bash for scripting may seem ... are because some of the advanced functions in bash are arcane or confusing. Strings are a good example.

It’s quite easy to get bash to concatenate strings and do simple math on Linux, but there are a number of options for you to use. This post focusses on concatenating strings, but also shows how ...

They function identically in Bash and PowerShell, although the operation is slightly different. Figure 4 (below) is the same as Figure 1 and shows a Bash script using variables to run the same FFmpeg ...

Editor's Note: This article has been updated by its author. Thank you, Pat. Have you ever wanted to change the names of many files at once? Or, have you ever needed to use a default value for a ...

We often read (including in the book Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper) that if we pass variable names as parameters to functions, they will be treated as string literals and cannot be ...