The first 13 chapters focus purely on building strong core concepts in Bash: variables, conditionals, loops, functions, file handling, etc. The following chapters dive into real-world use cases — ...

I write Bash scripts frequently and realised that I often copied a recent script whenever I started writing a new one. This provided me with a basic scaffold to work on and several useful helper ...

Bulky, assorted files filling up my Downloads folder are no more.

In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...