QA & Testing

I was recently poking around on my Terminal (Mac OS X) and I noticed one of the environment variables was: DIRSTACK=() So I checked the m...

In the past I have written scripts which required a lot of data. I could have the script read a second file with all the data in it but occa...

From time to time I see people asking questions about how to use an automation tool to do something the tool was never meant to do. For exam...

Someone was having trouble writing a shell script. A common activity for Bourne shell scripting is to take the output from various commands ...

Someone recently asked me how to select a range of text from a log file. Because it was a log file, each line started with the date and time...

What do you do if you have a shell script that cannot be run twice at the same time, i.e. you have to wait until the script finishes before ...

When most people start programming Bourne shell scripts they are VERY small. If you take over someone else's work or you have been prog...