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For some reason I can’t seem to find a straightforward answer to this and I’m on a bit of a time crunch at ...

I wish to provide a structured configuration file which is as easy as possible for a non-technical user to edit (unfortunately it has ...

This question already has answers here: Meaning of $? (dollar question mark) in shell scripts (8 answers) Closed 3 years ago. I’m trying ...

Is there a simple way to comment out a block of code in a shell script? 15 Answers 15

$1 is the first argument. $@ is all of them. How can I find the last argument passed to a shell script? 29 ...

Say I want to kill every process containing the word amarok. I can print out the commands I want to execute. But how ...

This question already has answers here: Make a Bash alias that takes a parameter? (24 answers) Closed 1 year ago. The community reviewed ...

If not, is there a de facto standard? Basically I’m writing a command line help text like so: usage: app_name...

I want to shuffle the lines of a text file randomly and create a new file. The file may have several thousands of ...

I need to execute some make rules conditionally, only if the Python installed is greater than a certain version (say 2.5). I thought ...