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Inspired by a forum threadChoose which shell your scripts use, that’s the “#/bin/*sh” at the top:Once you made that choice, it should influence your coding quite …

Archlinux packages list optional dependencies: “An array of packages that are not needed for the software to function, but provide additional features.” But there’s no special treatment built in …

Since Version 4.2.0 GNU bash can print times in strftime format with printf.OK, the external date command can do a lot that bash‘s builtin cannot do …

A few years ago I noticed that sleep is not built into bash and instead calls an external command each time.I like to make my scripts responsive and unobtrusive …

I sometimes need this in my scripts: if a string starts with either http:// or https://, it must be a web link. How can I test for that in a …