This post covers some well-known Linux commands that, when used with particular options and arguments, can save you some time or ensure that what you are doing is what you intended. The first “trick” ...

Parameter expansion requires a bit of practice, but it can be very useful once you’ve become familiar with its many applications. Parameter expansion on a Linux system is a feature in the bash shell ...

In this article, I want to cover a more fundamental aspect of shell scripting: working with command arguments. I suspect that most shell scripts go through an evolution with their command flags, ...