Building a Better March Madness Script The above can be wrapped into a new guesswinner function to predict a contest between two teams, whose ranks are passed as arguments. The function generates the ...

Bash provides a way to create functions, groups of commands that can be set up inside a script and invoked as a group. Functions can therefore be run as often or as infrequently as needed.

Bash loops One of the major functions that Bash provides is the ability to run commands in a loop. Loops allow you to quickly perform many functions on a file or set of files or just for general ...

In order to avoid this common mistake I often have my shell scripts prompt me for a yes or no answer before they proceed. The function described here is for doing that: asking a question and ...

I have a script that calls child scripts depending on conditions. All of the child scripts source in a common file that contains shared functions. At the moment each script has to source this file ...

We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us think that’s an abomination, and you sho… ...

Looks much easier. Still, bash isn’t that hard. If you must have bash scripts for some reason, this might be worth a look. As a general-purpose programming language, you should probably stick ...

Hi all! I am new to BASH scripting on Macs. I have started to create simple .sh scripts, but i am looking to advance onto a new skill which involves either: 1. installing .pkg files from my ...