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… ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

As with the Bash script, the FFmpeg script is identical except that the variables input and output have been substituted for the input and output file directly specified in the previous script. As ...

Recently I needed to create a script that processed two input files. By processed I mean that the script needed to get a line from one file, then get a line from the second file, and then do something ...

On some Linux systems (like Fedora), the script command also makes it possible to separate input from output in your session recording using the -I (or –log-in) and -O (or –log-out) options.