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shell function or shell script?

By hymie! on Tue May 12 11:13:27 2026

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Fri May 15 04:10:44 2026
urlview and tmux

By Anthk GM on Mon May 11 06:13:31 2026

Latest reply by marrgol on Mon May 11 12:44:17 2026
Over-Elaborate Shell Scripting

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Mar 12 07:21:40 2026

Latest reply by c186282 on Thu Mar 19 03:59:20 2026
Babbling about chemistry (Was: Unsettling bash tutorial)

By gazelle on Thu Mar 19 20:19:10 2026

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Fri Mar 20 12:19:36 2026
ksh93u+m locale issue with select statement

By Janis Papanagnou on Sun Jan 11 05:51:26 2026

Latest reply by Richard Harnden on Tue Mar 17 14:09:08 2026
Knoppix (Was: Unsettling bash tutorial)

By gazelle on Tue Mar 17 00:56:15 2026

Latest reply by rbowman on Tue Mar 17 06:05:09 2026
Re: Over-Elaborate Shell Scripting (religion)

By The Natural Philosopher on Mon Mar 16 13:12:10 2026

Latest reply by c186282 on Mon Mar 16 00:03:53 2026
extglob

By Frank Winkler on Tue Feb 17 12:57:06 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Feb 18 21:12:26 2026
Re: handy shell function/alias that wraps bc

By gazelle on Mon Nov 3 17:33:44 2025

Latest reply by Jim Diamond on Mon Nov 24 21:12:30 2025
environmental variable question

By Michael Sanders on Sat Nov 8 15:04:53 2025

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Mon Nov 10 09:22:58 2025
Sourcing/Desourcing Files

By Michael Sanders on Mon Nov 3 21:24:13 2025

Latest reply by Mister Johnson on Fri Nov 7 19:28:46 2025
Arrays in OpenBSD 7.8 's pdksh

By Anthk NM on Wed Nov 5 18:01:01 2025

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Wed Nov 5 21:37:57 2025
Re: Documentation (man, info, etc.) (was Re: The Bash =?UTF-8?Q?Hacker=E2=80=99s?= Wiki)

By Yeechang Lee on Tue Nov 4 02:37:55 2025

Latest reply by Keith Thompson on Sat Aug 23 15:31:06 2025
Bad performance of back-references

By Janis Papanagnou on Sun Jun 1 14:07:33 2025

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Thu Jun 12 03:58:46 2025
[ksh] Warning: pipe symbol within ${} should be quoted?

By Janis Papanagnou on Thu May 8 01:00:40 2025

Latest reply by Martijn Dekker on Mon Jun 9 02:17:38 2025
How to convert to pure ASCII

By gazelle on Sun May 4 18:15:38 2025

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Thu May 22 00:08:48 2025
Lew Pitcher still around?

By Ruben Safir on Thu May 8 22:02:07 2025

Latest reply by Lew Pitcher on Sun May 11 15:09:30 2025
Create functional processing pipe (without eval)?

By Janis Papanagnou on Wed May 7 04:02:13 2025

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Thu May 8 00:55:31 2025
GNU grep and files with nulls

By gazelle on Sat Apr 12 15:03:13 2025

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Sat Apr 12 18:03:40 2025
LOL, managed to suspend "fg" command somehow.

By Kaz Kylheku on Tue Apr 8 00:30:26 2025

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Tue Apr 8 07:43:31 2025
Re: a sed question

By anthk on Sun Mar 23 09:45:58 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sun Mar 23 23:41:00 2025
Initiate command in another shell session?

By Janis Papanagnou on Thu Mar 13 12:59:29 2025

Latest reply by Jim Diamond on Sun Mar 16 15:45:21 2025
(shellcheck) SC2103

By gazelle on Wed Mar 5 14:43:04 2025

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Thu Mar 6 19:50:16 2025
Another shellcheck rant...

By gazelle on Wed Mar 5 14:51:17 2025

Latest reply by gazelle on Wed Mar 5 22:32:25 2025
Sorting problem with Unix sort(1) with UTF-8 punctuation characters - locale issue

By Janis Papanagnou on Wed Feb 19 12:27:18 2025

Latest reply by Lem Novantotto on Thu Feb 20 11:14:42 2025
Calculating in other bases than 10

By Janis Papanagnou on Tue Feb 18 10:59:55 2025

Latest reply by Janis Papanagnou on Wed Feb 19 06:46:54 2025
lisp scripts

By zara on Sun Feb 9 06:49:45 2025

Latest reply by merlyn on Sun Feb 16 01:05:06 2025
Basta update!

By Kaz Kylheku on Wed Feb 12 18:44:37 2025

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Wed Feb 12 18:44:37 2025
Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?

By Janis Papanagnou on Fri Jan 24 10:59:59 2025

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Mon Feb 3 18:12:04 2025
Early history of Bash (was: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?)

By Christian Weisgerber on Sun Jan 26 14:12:32 2025

Latest reply by Kaz Kylheku on Mon Jan 27 19:26:43 2025
ksh - issue with (non-existing) jobs

By Janis Papanagnou on Sat Jan 25 16:12:43 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Jan 27 00:01:28 2025
PATH for GUI applications (was: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?)

By Axel Reichert on Sat Jan 25 09:20:52 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sun Jan 26 00:03:40 2025