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The ‘eval’ command in Bash and its typical uses

After reading the Bash man pages and with respect to this post, I am still having trouble understanding what exactly the eval command … Read more

This question already has answers here: How to terminate a script? (12 answers) Closed 2 years ago. I have a simple Python script … Read more

I have a file with about 1000 lines. I want the part of my file after the line which matches my grep statement. … Read more

I want the variable sum/NR to be printed side-by-side in each iteration. How do we avoid awk from printing newline in each iteration … Read more

I have written a Python script that checks a certain e-mail address and passes new e-mails to an external program. How can I … Read more

I am trying to write a simple bash script that will copy the entire contents of a folder including hidden files and folders … Read more

I am writing a nightly build script in bash. Everything is fine and dandy except for one little snag: #!/bin/bash for file in … Read more

I have noticed this in a couple of scripting languages, but in this example, I am using python. In many tutorials, they would … Read more

Currently I’m doing some unit tests which are executed from bash. Unit tests are initialized, executed and cleaned up in a bash script. … Read more

I’ve seen Bash scripts test for a non-zero length string in two different ways. Most scripts use the -n option: #!/bin/bash # With … Read more