You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

A handful of useful productivity tools wrapped up in a simple shell script.

I have several scripts that all do different things to files in a particular folder. Recently the path of the folder changed and I had to modify each of the scripts to reflect this. I would like to ...

At times, we need to write shell scripts that are interactive and user executing them need to monitor the progress. For such requirements, we can implement a simple progress bar that gives an idea ...

It's hard to write a bash script of much import without using a pipe or two. Named pipes, on the other hand, are much rarer. Like un-named/anonymous pipes, named pipes provide a form of IPC ...